Dodie smith biography
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Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May – 24 November ) was an English novelist and playwright. She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle () and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (). Other works include Dear Octopus () and The Starlight Barking (). The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a animated film and a live-action film, both produced by Disney. Her novel I Capture the Castle was adapted into a film version. I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as "one of the nation's best-loved novels" by the British public as part of the BBC's The Big Read ().
Biography
Early life
Smith was born on 3 May in a house named Stoneycroft (number ) on Bury New Road, Whitefield, near Bury in Lancashire, England. She was an only child. Her parents were Ernest and Ella Smith (née Furber). Ernest was a finansinstitut manager; he died in when Dodie was two years old. Dodie and her mother moved to Old Trafford to live with her g
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I picked up this biography with great enthusiasm, but found, on the very first page, this description of Valerie Grove, the biographer, reading I Capture the Castle:
&#;Like so many readers before me, I was captured from the opening sentence: &#;I am writing this sitting in the kitchen sink.'&#;
Grrr! It&#;s &#;I write this sitting in the kitchen sink&#;, one of the most famous opening lines in modern English literature, and a individ who can&#;t see or hear the difference between those two sentences probably should not be writing books at all, let alone writing biographies of Dodie Smith. However, I pressed on and found that the biographer seemed to have done a very thorough job of investigating Dodie&#;s life – assisted bygd the millions of words Dodie wrote about herself in her journals, her letters to her friends and her multiple volumes of autobiography.
Dear Dodie contains detailed descriptions of Dodie as a spoilt only child surrounded bygd doting older relatives in a wea
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Dodie Smith
Born
in Whitefield, The United KingdomMay 03,
Died
November 24,
Genre
Literature & Fiction, Children's Books
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Born Dorothy Gladys Smith in Lancashire, England, Dodie Smith was raised in Manchester (her memoir is titled A Childhood in Manchester). She was just an infant when her father died, and she grew up fatherless until age 14, when her mother remarried and the family moved to London. There she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and tried for a career as an actress, but with little success. She finally wound up taking a job as a toy buyer for a furniture store to make ends meet. Giving up dreams of an acting career, she turned to writing plays, and in her first play, Autumn Crocus, was published (under the pseudonym “C.L. Anthony”). It was a success, and her story — from failed actress to furniture store employee to successful wrBorn Dorothy Gladys Smith in Lancashire, England, Dodie Smith was raised in Manchester (he