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  1. Overview. I Capture the Castle is a young adult novel published in 1948 by Dodie Smith. It follows the fictional journal of aspiring author Cassandra Mortmain as she writes about her family’s rise from poverty to wealth through their association with the Cotton brothers. The novel discusses themes of authorship, history, and the multiplicity ...

  2. The family are all rather odd; the new Mrs Mortmain, Topaz, is an artist's model who enjoys nudity. Mr Mortmain's two daughters, Rose and Cassandra, both have literary ambitions of their own, although Cassandra's are more practical than Rose's. Rose sees herself as the romantic heroin of an Austen novel, and wants to live in the castle until ...

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  3. 823.914. I Capture the Castle was Dodie Smith 's first novel, written during the Second World War when she and her husband Alec Beesley, a conscientious objector, moved from their native England to California. Smith was already an established playwright and later became famous for writing the children's classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians .

  4. Study Guide for I Capture the Castle. I Capture the Castle study guide contains a biography of Dodie Smith, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. The I Capture the Castle Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author ...

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  5. Chapter 1 Summary. Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain begins journaling in an old writing exercise book to practice her speed-writing techniques and get into a daily habit of writing, as she desires to be a novelist. She describes the events that happen to her family as they live in relative poverty in Godsend Castle in Sussex, England.

  6. Print. I Capture the Castle. Dodie Smith, 1948. St. Martin's Press. 352 pp. ISBN-13: 9780312316167. Summary. I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills.

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  8. Authorship and its Obligations. As the primary theme of I Capture the Castle, the concept of authorship and its creative, social, and financial obligations is centered on the characters of Cassandra and James Mortmain. Cassandra and her father are trying to understand their personal authorship in relation to each other and the lives of their ...

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