Christianna Brand (1907–1988)
Autore di Nanny McPhee: The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda
Sull'Autore
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) Christianna Brand (born Mary Christianna Milne) also wrote under the pseudonyms Mary Ann Ashe, Annabel Jones, Mary Roland, and China Thomson.
Fonte dell'immagine: Cut down scan from the back cover of Penguin No.779 (unattributed image)
Serie
Opere di Christianna Brand
The Scapegoat 2 copie
The Man on the Roof 1 copia
Murder Game 1 copia
Clever and Quick 1 copia
The Kite 1 copia
The Wicked Ghost [short fiction] 1 copia
Nanny Matilda fährt ans Meer 1 copia
Danger Unlimited 1 copia
Opere correlate
The International Association of Crime Writers Presents Bad Behavior (1995) — Collaboratore — 90 copie
Bodies from the Library 2: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Queens of Crime and other Masters of Golden… (2019) — Collaboratore — 67 copie
Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2023) — Collaboratore — 47 copie
Ellery Queen's headliners; 20 stories from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine. (1971) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
Appendici in giallo 1 (racconti) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Lewis, Mary Christianna Milne
- Altri nomi
- Brant, Mary
Brant, Christianna
Roland, Mary
Thomson, China
Jones, Annabel
Ashe, Mary Ann - Data di nascita
- 1907-12-17
- Data di morte
- 1988-03-11
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Malaya
- Luogo di residenza
- Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia ∙ birth)
India
London, England, UK - Attività lavorative
- crime writer
children's book author
governess
shop assistant
model
dancer - Organizzazioni
- Crime Writers' Association ( [1972])
Detection Club - Agente
- Sarah Molloy (A.M. Heath & Company Ltd)
- Breve biografia
- Christianna Brand, who published her first novel in 1941, was one of the great practitioners of the classic English detective novel. She was born to British parents in Malaysia, spent her childhood in India, and then was sent to England for education. Her third book, Green for Danger (1944), was adapted into a classic film starring Alistair Sim as her Inspector Cockrill. Two of her short stories won Edgar Award nominations and have been included in several anthologies. She and her husband Roland Lewis, an ear-nose-and-throat surgeon, were married for nearly 50 years. She also wrote books for children, including the Nurse Matilda series, which was adapted for the screen as Nanny McPhee (2005).
- Nota di disambiguazione
- Christianna Brand (born Mary Christianna Milne) also wrote under the pseudonyms Mary Ann Ashe, Annabel Jones, Mary Roland, and China Thomson.
Utenti
Recensioni
Green for Danger (British Library Crime Classics) di Christianna Brand
Interwar hospital puzzle - good characterization and just plain fun
This classic locked-room mystery takes place just after WW II. During a pageant involving people dressed as knights riding horses saluting a lady in a tower, the lady falls to her death which hundreds of people are watching. There are only a handful of suspects and they are all named in the beginning of the story. This who-dunnit is therefore mostly a how did he do it. What makes the story entertaining is how the detectives form a conclusion that is immediately discarded as a result of a few small facts. Also, suspicion keeps moving from character to character.… (altro)
I liked this book more at the end of than I did at the beginning. It was a chore to get through the first several chapters, until Inspector Cockrill is called to the scene. It's a whodunit murder mystery set in England with an eccentric set of suspects who dither and fuss through most of the story, while the sleuthing is going on. There's chattiness and wordiness that prevents an easy read. A reader needs to be completely engaged in order to see the puzzle get resolved. There's a clever ending, that took this reader by surprise, which is always a good thing for me.… (altro)
Christianna Brand did such a good job of evoking the Victorian nursery presided over by a nanny, that I thought the Nurse Matilda stories were contemporary with E. Nesbit or Mrs. Molesworth. I was surprised to learn that the first Nurse Matilda book was published in 1964. That would explain why the Ocean Park library didn't have them when I was little; the main Santa Monica library may have got freshly published books in but the little branch libraries had slightly older books on the shelf. To be fair, they did have one book published in 1963 before we moved away in 1965.
Nurse Matilda invites comparisons with Mary Poppins because of the magic, but the theme of letting-the-children-do-their-own-thing until they hate it is more similar to Mrs Piggle-Wiggle (series published 1947-1957).
Like Mrs Piggle-Wiggle, the Nurse Matilda books tend to be a bit repetitive in their formula. This didn't bother me at all as a 7 year old reading about Mrs. P-W and I'm sure would not have bothered me had I read Nurse M when I was 8, but it is a bit much for an adult. The hallucinatory dream sequences with which the books end were also a bit much for me as an adult and I'm not at all sure how they would strike a child. Each of the first two books ends with a chapter recounting one of these fever dreams. Two chapters of it at the end of the third book is truly excessive.
Because of the repetitive story line (children are naughty; Matilda is summoned; stick is thumped; children must continue naughtiness until they repent, Matilda leaves), it's probably a mistake to buy the entire series in one volume ("Nanny McPhee") if you are like me and don't have the discipline not to read it all at one sitting. Good children's book for children nonetheless. For families or schools, reading aloud at the rate of a chapter a day would be enjoyable (but not the third book, because the last TWO chapters!).
I found an interesting review that I would like to link for my own reference: https://plumfieldandpaideia.com/nurse-matilda/… (altro)
Nurse Matilda invites comparisons with Mary Poppins because of the magic, but the theme of letting-the-children-do-their-own-thing until they hate it is more similar to Mrs Piggle-Wiggle (series published 1947-1957).
Like Mrs Piggle-Wiggle, the Nurse Matilda books tend to be a bit repetitive in their formula. This didn't bother me at all as a 7 year old reading about Mrs. P-W and I'm sure would not have bothered me had I read Nurse M when I was 8, but it is a bit much for an adult. The hallucinatory dream sequences with which the books end were also a bit much for me as an adult and I'm not at all sure how they would strike a child. Each of the first two books ends with a chapter recounting one of these fever dreams. Two chapters of it at the end of the third book is truly excessive.
Because of the repetitive story line (children are naughty; Matilda is summoned; stick is thumped; children must continue naughtiness until they repent, Matilda leaves), it's probably a mistake to buy the entire series in one volume ("Nanny McPhee") if you are like me and don't have the discipline not to read it all at one sitting. Good children's book for children nonetheless. For families or schools, reading aloud at the rate of a chapter a day would be enjoyable (but not the third book, because the last TWO chapters!).
I found an interesting review that I would like to link for my own reference: https://plumfieldandpaideia.com/nurse-matilda/… (altro)
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