Born in Lancashire on this day in 1896, English writer Dodie Smith is best known for two novels in particular: her debut, I Capture the Castle, published in 1948, and The Hundred and One Dalmatians, in which a couple of dogs attempt to rescue their missing puppies from the clutches of a we…
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