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 · I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. I am sitting on the ruins beyond the kitchen-where I sat with Neil, three weeks ago all but a day, after swimming the moat. How different it is now, in the hot sunshine! Bees are humming, a dove is cooing, the moat is full of sky. Heloise has just gone down to take a drink and a swan is giving her a glance.  · Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith, born in in Lancashire, England, was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. She wrote Autumn, Crocus, and Dear Octopus, among other plays. I Capture the Castle, her first novel, was written in the s while she was living in America. An immediate success, it marked her crossover from playwright to novelist, and was Brand: Concord Theatricals, Ltd. Dodie Smith's I capture the castle will make you yearn for a time gone by, when life moved at a slower place and the simple things mattered most; a time of austerity and naivety Told through the eyes of Cassandra, a girl on the brink of womanhood, trying to make sense of /5(K).

Tagged 5 Star Book Reviews, Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle, Jane Austen Published by Laurel Ann Nattress Editor of www.doorway.ru, and the short story anthology Jane Austen Made Me Do It, Laurel Ann is a champion of Jane Austen, Austenesque fiction, historical fiction, Regency romance, and period drama. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith - review 'This book was such a wonderful, enchanting and unpredictable read that by the end of it I felt like I almost was Cassandra' e l l a t h e b o o k w o r m. I Capture the Castle study guide contains a biography of Dodie Smith, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. About I Capture the Castle I Capture the Castle Summary.

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith, born in in Lancashire, England, was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. She wrote Autumn, Crocus, and Dear Octopus, among other plays. I Capture the Castle, her first novel, was written in the s while she was living in America. An immediate success, it marked her crossover from playwright to novelist, and was produced as a play in I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. I am sitting on the ruins beyond the kitchen-where I sat with Neil, three weeks ago all but a day, after swimming the moat. How different it is now, in the hot sunshine! Bees are humming, a dove is cooing, the moat is full of sky. Heloise has just gone down to take a drink and a swan is giving her a glance. I Capture the Castle is the first novel by the English author Dodie Smith, written during the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley (also English and a conscientious objector) had moved to California. She longed for home and wrote of a happier time, unspecified in the novel apart from a reference to living in the s.