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Tag Archives: Jane Austen

‘Miss Austen Forgot the Baby’

Margery Sharp was a sincere admirer of Jane Austen’s novels. ‘One of the great delights of Miss Austen’s works,’ she writes, ‘is that one can read and re-read them indefinitely, always making fresh discoveries.’ Emma was Sharp’s idea of a perfect novel. Yet one ‘fresh discovery’ Margery Sharp made, while re-reading Emma, surprised her a…

2014/05/20 in anglophile literature, British fiction, comedy, Emma, Jane Austen, Margery Sharp.

The Nutmeg Tree

The Nutmeg Tree was first published in 1937. It is probably the first of Margery Sharp’s novels that made her work a commercial success.

For good reason. It is a marvelous piece of storytelling that also happens to be extremely funny.

2014/05/06 in 1930's British literature, anglophile literature, Book review, British fiction, comedy, fiction, Jane Austen, Margery Sharp.

Sophy Cassmajor

‘Not cold but everlastingly here lives The rapture of the lover and the maid; Here Timelessness with Time’s limbs no more strives But sleeps, a song sounding though never played.’ W.J. Turner, Epitaph * * * * * * * “It’s not cowardly to wish to live, Alice. It’s the very reverse of cowardly….Think of…

2014/03/15 in 1930's British literature, anglophile literature, British fiction, fiction, Jane Austen, literature, Margery Sharp, short story.

The Miracle of Emma

Margery Sharp referred to Jane Austen several times in her novels, and admired her exceedingly. I refer you to this interview conducted back in October, 1963. (Counterpoint, Roy Newquist, published 1964, Rand McNally & Co.) Margery Sharp was asked by Roy Newquist ‘What would you still like to accomplish that you haven’t already done?’ Her…

2014/02/22 in anglophile literature, British fiction, comedy, Emma, fiction, Jane Austen, literature, Margery Sharp.

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