· Guard Your Daughters is so warm, so funny, so lively and delightful. It’s a warm blanket of a novel, but never cloying or sentimental. Basically, if you have any affection for I Capture the Castle, you’ll feel the same about Guard Your Daughters. I’m going to go one step www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. · Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton. August 7, August 7, / Bag Full of Books. I must admit that ‘Guard Your Daughters’ was one of those books, where one paragraph in, I just knew that this was going to be one of my most favourite books. One can’t but help draw a comparison between Dodie Smith’s voice in ‘I Capture the Castle’ and Diana Tutton’s in this Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Guard Your Daughters is in many ways very like Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle – a book which I have read twice, loved, and which continues to enjoy huge popularity. Diana Tutton’s first novel was published just a few years after I Capture the Castle, and in it, she appears to refer to the earlier novel in a scene about dressing for a cocktail party at the house of the local gentry/5(6).
Here Dinah Tutton, a staunch officer's wife, wrote the bestselling Guard Your Daughters (); it was in fact her second novel, the first, Mamma, being published in In Malaya again from , she wrote her third novel The Young Ones (). The family later lived in the Midlands before moving to Gloucestershire, where Dinah Tutton. ONE OF THE FALL SELECTIONS of PERSEPHONE BOOKS IS Diana Tutton's novel, Guard Your Daughters. In I wrote the following at my old blog: Stuck-in-a-Book, an energetic blogger who has revived interest in many neglected women's classics, has created a craze for Diana Tutton's out-of-print novel, Guard Your Daughters. Guard Your Daughters: A Novel|Diana Tutton, Encyclopedia Of Library And Information Science: Volume 1 - Abbreviations: Accountability To Associcao Brasileira De Escolas De Biblioteconomia E And Information Science Encyclopedia)|Harold Lancour, Le Morvan, [A District Of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards And Forests With Legends, Antiquities, Rural And Local Sketches|Henri De Crignelle.
Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton is a novel about a family of five daughters living in the country – or rather four daughters since one has recently escaped by marrying and it is Morgan, Cressida, Teresa and Thisbe who are still at home with their parents. Their mother stops her daughters going to school or making friends. Published in , Guard Your Daughters centers on the Harvey girls who live in rural isolation with their mystery author father and hyper-sensitive mother. There are five daughters but the eldest, Pandora, has recently married and moved away. I enjoyed Tutton's novel thoroughly and I highly recommend it! Guard Your Daughters was originally published in I was immediately smitten with the five sisters living in a remote cottage in rural England. Each one is unique in their own way but all share creativity and a smart wit.
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