SMITH, Dodie.

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I Capture the Castle. First edition of the author's wildly successful first novel. Written and published in the United States the previous year, the work reveals Smith's yearning for home: a conscientious objector, Smith and her husband emigrated from England to the US in 1939, spending time in California, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.I Capture the Castle is "a captivating story located in a medieval castle Smith had seen at Wingfield, Suffolk, in 1934, written in the form of the diary of Cassandra Mortmain, aged seventeen, essentially based on the young Dodie" (ODNB).

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