![]() ![]() (“Shopgirl Writes Play” was the headline that heralded her arrival.) During World War II, she moved to America with her husband Alec Beesley-a conscientious objector-and worked in Hollywood. Born Dorothy Gladys Smith in 1896, Smith became famous as a playwright in the late 1920s, while working for a furniture store. I Capture the Castle is the beloved but far too narrowly celebrated masterpiece of British writer Dodie Smith. (I don’t recommend the soldiers of Sebastopol Sketches for anyone seeking another Vronsky, though Tolstoy’s account of his time in the Crimea certainly has its charms.) And then you find it, and under the covers you go. DO YOU EVER worry that you’ve read it all-not all of it, of course, but all the books that prompt that flashlight-under-the-covers, can’t-stop-till-I’m-done, giddy glee? The fear strikes me sometimes, when I’m scanning bookstore tables piled high with novels set in Brooklyn or Forks, Washington, or skimming through the lesser works of my literary loves. ![]()
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