#mistress masham's repose

[princess-ibri]

Disney was going to adapt another TH White novel called Mistress Masham's Repose where a girl escape an orphanage and found Lilliputians. They cancelled it because they don’t want it to flop and they found its plot similar to The Rescuers. So it exist in the DisneyVerse? There is concept art:

I've heard of this before yeah! I don't know if it would exist in my DisneyVerse, I'd like to find the original book somewhere and read it so I can get a better feel for the plot before I decide. But the concept art does look fun!

#asks #disney #disneyverse #deleted disney #canceled disney #mistress masham's repose #th white #disney concept art

[very-grownup]

She got hold of him by one leg, but Maria charged at the same instant and bit another finger till she felt the flesh turn on the bone.

Mistress Masham’s Repose, T.H. White

#quotations #mistress masham's repose #t.h. white #children's book protagonists choose violence

[gtbutterfly]

Update on the really old GT book I've been reading,

For some reason, it keeps implying that a tiny being in a giants hands is "silly" and "babyish" and "humiliating" and I don't know if I should be offended or feel called out.

#the book is call “mistress Mashams repose” if your interested #its from 1947 #its about lilliputians living on a small island and being discovered by a ten year old girl #im on chapter 11 rn and its been pretty good so far #theres some weird (racist) stuff about native Americans in the beginning #which is weird because the book takes places and was written in great Britain and doesn't have any native American characters at all #i guess its just a consequence of being a children's book from 1947 smh #it also has pretty good gt dispite the tinys being 5 to 6 inches tall #normal tags now #g/t #gt community #g/t community #giant/tiny #sfw g/t #giant tiny #g/t writing #gt writing #borrowers #liliputians #old literature

[thenewnio]

Miss Masham’s Repose (A sequel to the Fleischer brothers’ Gulliver’s Travels)

10-year-old Maria moves to the New England estate of Malplaquet Hall with her foster mother, Mrs. Noakes. Her neighbors are the retired Professor Pittman, local boy Marc Gordon, the snobbish Veronica Brown and the banker Zeke Hatter. The bored, friendless Maria tries to make herself useful through chores, but repeatedly messes up. Later, she investigates Miss Masham’s Repose, a forgotten island in a nearby lake called the Quincunx. While exploring, Maria gets a glimpse of Gibby, a miniature girl, who flees upon seeing the “giant”. Gibby tries to tell Lala, the president of Miss Masham’s Repose, but Lala, certain that their society may never be discovered by the “big folk”, tries to reassure her. Meanwhile, Maria is told by Pittman that she needs proof of the little people’s existence. The next day, she returns to the island, this time with a Polaroid camera. Upon seeing Maria again, Gibby attempts to scare her off the island, only to fall into Maria’s backpack and be knocked unconscious. Having had no apparent success, Maria returns to Malplaquet Hall. In Maria’s room, Gibby awakens and is discovered by Maria, who takes her to Pittman as living proof. As Gibby tries to escape, she is attacked by the cat Humphrey, but Maria saves her. As Maria and Gibby argue, Pittman consults the historical records of Miss Masham’s Repose and comes across the journal of Captain John Biddel, the rescuer of Lemuel Gulliver and former owner of Malplaquet Hall, who found a miniature sailing ship carrying pioneers from the islands of Lilliput and Blefuscu, bringing them to live on Miss Masham’s Repose in safety. Pittman convinces Maria to return Gibby to the island, where the inhabitants are at first wary of the “giant” girl’s presence. However, Maria manages to convince them of her good will by giving them items taken from her old dollhouse. In return they give Maria gifts of gold coins as well. As Maria continues to visit Miss Masham’s Repose, Veronica becomes suspicious upon seeing the coins. After failing to bribe Maria into divulging where she got them, she persuades Mrs. Noakes into revealing the girl’s visits to Miss Masham’s Repose. Seeking the “treasure”, Veronica and Hatter trick Marc into distracting Maria while they head to the island before her. Upon hearing Marc mention the two and realizing what is happening, Maria hurries with him to Miss Masham’s Repose, but Veronica and Hatter have already kidnapped Gibby. They also destroy the children’s boat, stranding them on the island, but two residents of Miss Masham’s Repose, twins Snake and Snipe, reveal their earlier find of the ship which their ancestors used, which they and the children fix up to sail back to the mainland. Meanwhile, Veronica and Hatter plan to exploit the "miniatures” for profit, while Gibby manages to escape from the jar imprisoning her, meeting up with the twins and informing Pittman. Maria and Marc are caught by Veronica and Hatter, who lock them in the basement, but Gibby and the twins find and release them. Together, they ambush Veronica and Hatter, but are overpowered. Just as the antagonists are about to recapture Gibby and the twins, Lala arrives with an army of little people who subdue them, delivering a warning to them on behalf of their people. They disappear as Pittman arrives with the police. Veronica and Hatter are arrested for kidnapping and wrongful imprisonment, and the children and Pittman introduce Mrs. Noakes to the inhabitants of Miss Masham’s Repose. They help the little people clean up the island, promising to protect them and keep their society a secret.

#original story #gulliver's travels #That's the third sequel I've made #I took the original Mistress Masham's Repose and updated it #I also moved it to New England #and changed some parts of the story

[the-forest-library]

How many of the books mentioned in Robin McKinley's A Knot in the Grain have you read?

The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

*reblog for science*

#polls #books #booklr #bookish #reading #bibliophile #classic books #literature

[anisethefiaadmin]

Chapter 4 of Mistress Masham’s Repose is UP! A cookie from chapter 4:

“What is it, Father?” he asked, taking a deep breath, assuming his most erect posture. 

“News that I am not happy to hear,” Lucius replied. 

How could that possibly lead to anything good? Unless he means that Eltanin has refused to help him, Rastaban is avoiding the situation, and… and perhaps he needs me. But his father’s next words removed all doubt

“You have been seen with Ginny Weasley,” said Lucius. “At Hogwarts.” 

Draco licked his suddenly dry lips. “Ginny Weasley?”

“Yes, Ginny Weasley,” said Lucius. “Pray do not oblige me to repeat myself again. You met privately at Hogwarts this past year, more than once. What do you have to say to this?”

#draco/ginny #draco malfoy #d/g #fire and ice archive #draco #ginny weasley #victorian era #drinny

[nostalgicyorkshiregirl]

some recommendations from my 2023 book list

paris des merveilles series, pierre pevel (et al)

a perennial recommendation since i finally finished the trilogy this year. (mid-?)fantasy set in belle epoque france with flying cats and metro trains to fairy kingdoms. the short stories (by up-and-coming authors) are of varying quality but enjoyable. as far as i know not translated into english yet unfortunately

mistress masham's repose, t.h. white

a book i wish i'd read when i actually got it as a child. in which a young girl discovers a colony of lilliputians living in her garden and enlists their help defeating her evil governess... the humour is just top notch honestly

is that a fish in your ear?, david bellos

an extremely accessible and entertaining introduction to translation. i don't know how else to recommend it but it is really really good... if you have any interest whatsoever in language, translation and/or social history. or if you want to gain an interest in them idk

drachenreiter series, cornelia funke

another book i wish i'd known about as a child... a very wholesome and outlandishly imaginative sort of children's fantasy series featuring characters with wild backstories who are nonetheless almost too adorable. and fantasy david attenborough for some reason

the body, bill bryson

just a superlative popular science book on the bizarrities of the physical human condition. if i remember correctly it's one of the books i sat down and just inhaled. can't remember any of the facts from it except that the author fanny burney had her breast ripped off by a metal claw

sherlock holmes et le mystère du haut-koenigsbourg, jacques fortier

a book i'm hesitant to recommend because it might only have appeal if you've been to the château du haut-koenigsbourg. and because it's only available in french. but if you fulfil the conditions then it's a fun trip to early 1900s alsace with political mysteries, deerstalkers and the most unconvincing cover story you've ever seen

[mtvunplugged1996]

2022 recap! (I made it through this year???) Thank you @ttoshaaa for tagging me!! <3

Top 3 films:

A Passage to India (1984) dir. David Lean — my favorite film. I even wrote an essay about it for my English class last year! It's such an amazing piece of art: the crisp editing, the symbolism, the way Lean managed to translate the book for the screen. 11/10

The Age of Innocence (1993) dir. Martin Scorsese — I've really turned into a bit of a pretentious film bro, haven't I? Oops. Anyway, The Age of Innocence, like Passage, is based on a classic 20th century novel. The sets and costumes are of course amazing but what really stuck with me was the directing (which makes sense; it's Marty, after all). 10/10

The Leopard (1963) dir. Luchino Visconti — another novel adaptation (I'm noticing a theme here...), this one based on a story about a family of fading aristocrats set during the Italian Risorgimento. I'd actually like to rewatch this one, because I think there are a lot of layers to it that weren't apparent to me the first time around (and also because Visconti allegedly made his films to be watched "two, three times"). 10/10

Honorable mention for David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia... but I don't think I have to describe that one; its reputation proceeds it :)

Top 3 books:

Not even sure I read three books this year.

Mistress Masham's Repose by T. H. White — this was a reread, but it proved just as delightful as the first time. It's a satire of Gulliver's Travels (and it's much better than the original...). 10/10

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton — I actually have a lot of issues with Wharton's writing, but compared to the other books I read this year, it's pretty solid. The movie is better, though. Sorry. 8/10

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery — another reread. I had forgotten just how lovely this book is. Everyone should read this. 11/10

Honorable mention for Anna Karenina, which I've been reading since, um, 2020. I'm currently reading Maurice and making despicably slow progress, because I keep getting distracted by my research. Oops.

Top 3 biggest improvements:

I rewrote my novel. I don't talk about this a lot on here (or at least I try not to), but it's something I'm really proud of, and it took a ton of fortitude to learn to accept the criticisms I'd received. And now the second draft, even in its (very) unfinished state, is so much better than the first.

I got into college!!!! Somehow!!!

I made my first film! (And I also did a ton of video editing and just hit 1k on YouTube, which I know is relatively nothing, but it's super exciting to me nonetheless!)

Top 3 resolutions:

Finish my novel :')

Make another film

Take better care of my health

Favorite song:

Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor. Yes, really. Honorable mention for Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor.

Favorite quote:

From a poem by Frank Bidart. Honorable mention to this quote from A Room with a View by E. M. Forster that's been my bio on Discord for... gosh, over a year now:

It isn't possible to love and part. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

This was so fun! It's hard to believe that I made it through this year (well, almost) in one piece.

Tagging @addamii @boudicca @loonful @currentlycryingaboutlancelot and @nizynskis <3

#tag games

[its-suanneschafer-author]

BOOK REVIEW: An oldie but goodie: #MistressMashamsRepose by #THWhite. A lovely story with good ethics and humor for younger YA readers. 

#SwordInTheStone #Lilliputians #GulliversTravels #JonathanSwift #YANovels #Bookstagram #BookReviews #AmReading #BookLovers

[quoteoftheweekblog]

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18/3/24 - T.H. WHITE

'She had dark hair in two pig-tails, and brown eyes ... ' (White, 2014, p.1).

REFERENCE

White, T. H. (2014 [1946] ) 'Mistress Masham's Repose'. London: Vintage.

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I HAVE FAIR (GREY) HAIR AND BLUE EYES

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AND AM RECOVERING FROM SEBORRHOEIC DERMATITIS

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TO MY FRIEND FOR GIVING ME THIS BOOK BIRTHDAY 2024

AND FOR TELLING ME THAT I LOOK LIKE

THE WITCH OF ENDOR

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BOTH OF WHICH REALLY CHEERED ME UP

AND THANKS AGAIN

XXXX

PLUS

TO MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY FOR THEIR GOOD WISHES FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERY

ALL OF WHICH REALLY CHEERED ME UP

AND THANKS AGAIN

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DURING

DIRE TIMES

*****

SEE ALSO

‘ … in the golden sunrise … ‘ (White, 2014, p.299).

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NOT EXACTLY

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THE SUN ROSE TODAY IN BASINGSTOKE AT 06.10

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‘The sun was setting a blaze of scarlet … ‘ (White, 2014, p.300).

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NOT EXACTLY

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AND SET AT 18.15

ON WEDNESDAY’S VERNAL EQUINOX THE SUN WILL RISE AT 06.06 AND WILL SET AT 18.19

*****

ALL SEASONS

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FOR MY HUSBAND

WHO WOULD HAVE ENJOYED THIS ONE

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LOOKING GOOD

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TAYLOR ALERT 2024 - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT!!!!

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COUNTDOWN TO TAYLOR … ONLY 32 DAYS TO GO UNTIL THE RELEASE OF TAYLOR SWIFT’S NEW ALBUM THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT ON 19 APRIL

FOR EVERMORE AND MORE EXPOSURE

TAYLOR ALERT!!!!

***** QUOTE OF THE WEEK 2011 - 2024

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11 EPIC YEARS

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FROM THE ARCHIVE

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12/6/23

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[snarkymonkeyprime]

I'm amused. :D

#mistress masham's repose #t.h. white

[twogoliathbeetles]

when you listen to an album or song over and over while reading a book and it sticks to it, and now you can’t listen to it without remembering the book...

#nel.txt #anyway first movement of borodin string quartet no2 is maurice and howard's end #and help by the be*tles is mistress masham's repose #the whole album not just the song #actually i watched the film of maurice at around the same time as borodin but now the book fits with it as well #but it's more howard's end

[very-grownup]

Miss Brown had been Mr. Hater's matron at the public school. She must have had some mysterious hold over him, for it seems impossible that he would have chosen her freely, considering what she was. Her nose was sharp and pinched, with a high bridge, but the rest of her was podgy. When she sat down, she spread, as a toad does on one's hand. Her eyes were pebble-colored and her hair was yellow. It was drawn in a tight bun. She wore rimless pince-nez. She was about the same as the Vicar, but a good deal shorter. She was cruel in a complicated way. For instance, when Maria's last uncle had been alive, he had sometimes remembered to send the child of a box of chocolates for Christmas. Miss Brown's arrangements for any such parcel had usually been fixed in stages. First, Maria had not been allowed to open it when it came, "in case it had germs." It had been sent down to the kitchen to be baked. Then Maria had been sent for, to the Northwest Drawing Room, in which Miss Brown resided, and the ruined parcel had been placed before her to be undone. The next step had been to claim that Maria had dirty hands, untruly, and to send her back to the kitchen, a ten minutes' walk, to wash them. When she had got back at last, agog with expectation, and the poor melted chocolates had been unstuck from the brown paper, Miss Brown used to condemn them as improperly packaged and throw them into the nearest lake with her own fair fingers "for fear they would make the child ill".

Mistress Masham’s Repose, T.H. White

#quotations #mistress masham's repose #t.h. white

[booksformks]

Book Review: Mistress Masham's Repose

Book Review: Mistress Masham’s Repose

Mistress Masham’s Reposeby T.H. White, Fritz Eichenberg (Illustrator)4 out of 5 starsDelightful book!!Rereading it for the second or third time, I have enjoyed it just as much as the first time.Orphaned Maria lives in a crumbling old palace that her ancestors built on an extensive estate full of gardens and obelisks and temples and monuments. But there is no money to repair the palace, and she…

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#book #book review #books #children’s book #children’s books #childrens book #classic #classic adventure #classic book #classic book review #classic children&039;s books #classic literature #classic review #classics #literature #read #reading #review

[thenewnio]

A G/T story idea: The Hoblies

After Lemuel Gulliver’s famous adventures, scholars and scientists tried to find the worlds he visited for themselves. By the time both Lilliput and Blefuscu’s locations were finally discovered in the early 90s, all that was left were old ruins and miniature animals just like the ones Gulliver imported to the outside world; the tiny folk were long gone, having either died out or departed the two islands to explore the world. In the modern day, Lilliput and Blefuscu are now popular tourist destinations, and rumors of Lilliputian/Blefuscuian descendants secretly living among us are something of an internet legend, with purported sightings of tiny humans occasionally being posted online. One day, young Martha Witt notices strange things happening in her family’s new home. At first, being a paranormal buff, she chalks it up to poltergeist activity, only to discover that the truth is anything but ghostly when she succeeds in making contact with the true culprit, a young “hobli” of Lilliputian descent named Gali. Their meeting and newfound friendship is just the beginning of a wild series of events which will forever change the lives and world views of both of their respective societies.

#original story #fantasy #Inspired by the 1939 Gulliver's Travels and Mistress Masham's Repose #As well as Castle in the Sky #with a bit of the Borrowers #Hobli is a term I made up #The plural is Hoblies #The Hoblies' society is inspired by the mice's society in An American Tail #And the Rescuers too #with some of the Secret of NIMH thrown in #Gali is inspired by Gabby from the 1939 animated movie

[autumngracy]

“Little people” (ie: The Borrowers, The Littles, Lilliputians, etc.) as a concept is such a cool and unique worldbuilding and character study opportunity and it surprises me that there are so few works about it, especially that there are none that aren’t considered children’s books or middle-reader/early YA.

I would really like to write, at some point, a book of this genre aimed more towards older YA, New Adult fiction, or even Gen fic, just to see what that would look like.

Part of why I’m drawn to this genre, and why I feel its underuse is a travesty, is:

A) it takes the familiar and defamiliarizes the reader with it. Not only are you forced to consider a different literal perspective of the world, but the functionality, prospective uses, and danger of everything—from a tree to a thimble, is completely overhauled. What is a safe and natural environment for us (regular sized people) can be “the outside”, the unsafe and unpredictable. All is recontexualized, and that provides a fantastic setting for

B) creative worldbuilding! Not only will the living and working spaces, the food and drink, the daily routine of these little characters be totally different and unique to our own, but as a result their society and self-perceptions will be too! You can play the concept of such characters so many ways and it’s great fun figuring out the ins and outs of how they survive day to day, as well as what the “lore” and mythos of their species might be. What archetypal stories do their people tell? What do their hopes and dreams look like? What are their biggest fears? Where did they come from, or where do they believe they come from? How do they view their place in the world?

The worldbuilding opportunity with this genre is so extensive that you can create something infinitely interesting before you even come up with a plot, let alone individual characters! It’s a very “rich” genre in that regard. There’s just something very appealing about taking the real world we know and recontextualizing it in this specific way.

When I said there are not enough works in this genre I wasn’t kidding; I could list them all on two hands!

Literary Works:

The Borrowers Series by Mary Norton - pretty much the poster child for this genre and definitely most aligned with what I mean when I say “little people” - miniature humans living in secret within the regular human world, relying on cunning, stealth, and ingenuity to survive in an environment not suited for them.

The Littles series by John Peterson ~ the Littles are humanoids that have mouselike features (tails, ears, to some extent teeth), so they’re not quite what I go in for conceptually, but are nevertheless the second-most well known series of this genre.

The Lilliputians (featured at the beginning of Gulliver’s Travels) by Jonathan Swift ~ The Lilliputians are not the main feature of this work but are probably the most memorable of it ~ the Lilliputians are of interesting note to this genre because it’s one of the few stories where the little people are completely isolated from the “regular-sized” world and thus are not only (literally) a miniature caricature/satire of normal human society/countries/politics but also the Lilliputians are to themselves average size and thus react with shock, fear, and distrust to a “regular” (read: giant) human, reversing the discovery trope of the genre back upon the POV character.

The Wee Free Men (featured in various Discworld stories) by Terry Pratchett ~ part of a small selection of Discworld stories that was aimed more towards children than the main part of the series, alas. They are technically fae, so not 100% what I mean when I say “little people”, but they are a very notable work to include, since, I mean, it’s Terry Pratchett.

Little (Grrl) Lost by Charles de Lint - part of de Lint’s “Newford” series (storyverse, rather), and, surprisingly, a stand-alone book, despite his penchant for recurring cameos throughout the series. Honestly ripe for a sequel imo what with the way it ends.

The Secret of the Blue Glass by Tomiko Inui

Mistress Masham’s Repose by T.H. White

The Indian in the Cupboard series by Lynne Reid Banks ~ technically none of these “little people” are naturally “little”; rather they’re regular humans ripped through space and time via magic to temporarily inhabit a miniature effigy of themselves (even if it is merely a toy figurine that bears coincidental resemblance to them) - the setup for this gimmick is fascinating but technically this isn’t what I mean by the “little people” genre either, though it certainly explores some shared themes; however it does always come up in searches for “little people books”, so I’ve included it anyway.

Screen adaptations:

The Littles series - animated cartoon and movie series (circa 1980’s)

The Borrowers (1997)

The Borrowers (2011)

The Borrower Arrietty (OR The Secret World of Arrietty) - a Studio Ghibli adaptation of The Borrowers set in Japan (2010) ~ the animation and sound design/soundtrack for this is just gorgeous (as is par for the course with Ghibli)

If you know of any other works in this genre, drop by my inbox and tell me about them!

#little people #the borrowers #the borrower arrietty #fiction writing #the secret world of arrietty #writing #books