During World War II she worked for three years as an Army Education Lecturer during this time she wrote the novel Cluny Brown and worked on Britannia Mews, which described the bombing of London. In 1938 she married aeronautical engineer Major Geoffrey Castle. Sharp's first novel, Rhododendron Pie, took her a month to write and was published in 1930. She went on to write for a number of American and British magazines, including Harper's Bazaar, Ladies' Home Journal and Good Housekeeping. Punch magazine began publishing her stories when she was 21. While studying she joined the British University Women's Debating Team and was a member of the first team to compete in the United States. She then spent a year studying art at Westminster Art School. She read French at Bedford College, University of London. In 1914 she returned to Britain and studied at Streatham High School.
She spent part of her childhood in Malta, a period she later drew on for her novel The Sun in Scorpio. Sharp was born in the district of Salisbury in the county of Wiltshire, England, although her family originated from northern Yorkshire. Her best-known work is The Rescuers series about a heroic mouse named Miss Bianca and her partner Bernard, which was later adapted into the animated feature film The Rescuers (1977) – and a sequel, The Rescuers Down Under (1990) – by Walt Disney Productions. "retail_price" : "1.99", "our_price" : "1.99", "club_price" : "1.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.Clara Margery Melita Sharp (25 January 1905 – 14 March 1991) was an English writer of 25 novels for adults, 14 children's novels, four plays, two mysteries, and numerous short stories. Martha, Eric, and George is a witty and poignant novel about the indelible bond between mother and child, and the creative spark that can light up a life. Raised by his doting grandmother and his disinterested father, Eric, George attends his mother’s exhibition and Martha realizes she may well have met her match-a member of the opposite sex who will not let her go through life unencumbered. But when she returns to Paris to attend an exhibition of her work, she must face some unfinished business she left behind: her ten-year-old son, George. Ten years later, she is an enormous success. "item_description" : "After ten years, a successful painter returns to Paris and the son she left behind on her ex-lover’s doorstep, in Margery Sharp’s sparkling novel that features the artistic heroine of Martha in Paris After studying with le maître in Paris for a year, Martha returned to England to pursue her artistic destiny. "item_title" : "Martha, Eric, and George",
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