Cluny Brown is an orphan, brought up by her plumber uncle, Uncle Arn, and his wife, Aunt Floss. After Aunt Floss dies, Uncle Arn continues to look after her, but he's worried because Cluny doesn't "know her place." She does inexplicable things like going to the Ritz for tea. So another aunt recommends that Uncle Arn send Cluny into service/5(). Possibly the best-known novel for adults by Margery Sharp (her lasting legacy seems more to be for The Rescuers series for children) Cluny Brown is a comic novel following the title heroine’s quest for love, freedom, and experience. She works as a parlour maid in a country inn called Friars Carmel and there encounters a motley cast of www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins. · Cluny Brown. genusrosa / /11/ ‘When you rang up a plumber you didn’t expect—well, you didn’t expect Cluny.’. This delightful novel was first published in , and quickly became one of Sharp’s most popular works. It represents a favorite theme she returned to often: what happens when the quirky misfit, the Unruly Element, the carefree original who just doesn’t fit any Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.
At the age of twenty, Cluny Brown, the eponymous heroine of Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp, is tall, unattractive, and, as far as her uncle is concerned, trouble. Mr Porritt and his wife raised Cluny following the early deaths of her parents but following his own wife's death, Mr Porritt is at a bit of a loss for what to do with his niece. A delightful novel. The questions Cluny Brown had to face again and again are finally answered in the end. (In a way.) I must confess I am often amused by Margery Sharp's solution to settling the question of 'what should become of the unorthodox element'. 'But for once Cluny was silent. Her own name sounded oddly in her ears. Cluny Brown is an orphan, brought up by her plumber uncle, Uncle Arn, and his wife, Aunt Floss. After Aunt Floss dies, Uncle Arn continues to look after her, but he's worried because Cluny doesn't "know her place." She does inexplicable things like going to the Ritz for tea. So another aunt recommends that Uncle Arn send Cluny into service.
A delightful novel. The questions Cluny Brown had to face again and again are finally answered in the end. (In a way.) I must confess I am often amused by Margery Sharp’s solution to settling the question of ‘what should become of the unorthodox element’. ‘But for once Cluny was silent. Her own name sounded oddly in her ears. Sharp wrote twenty-six novels, three of which—Britannia Mews, Cluny Brown, and The Nutmeg Tree—were made into feature films, and fourteen children’s books, including The Rescuers, which was adapted into two Disney animated films. Cluny Brown is a humorous coming of age novel by Margery Sharp, published in August by Collins in the UK and Little Brown in the US.
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