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  1. The first thing we learn about 20 year old Cluny Brown is that she has gone to tea at the Ritz, all by herself, and just to see what it is like. Mr. Porritt, a London plumber and Cluny's uncle and guardian, is at a loss to know what to do about her, so he sends her down to Devon to go into 'service'.

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  2. Feb 8, 2015 · Cluny Brown is a young woman whose abiding fault (according, at least, to her guardian Uncle Arn) is not knowing her place. Although he is content and humble to be a plumber, she doesn’t see any reason why she should not take tea at the Ritz, if she can muster together the money.

  3. Apr 12, 2016 · Cluny Brown: A Novel. Margery Sharp. Open Road Media, Apr 12, 2016 - Fiction - 270 pages. An unconventional parlor maid upends the lives of an aristocratic family in prewar England Cluny Brown...

  4. Jan 25, 2017 · The Charming and Unusual Story of Cluny Brown. ‘Cluny Brown’ by Margery Sharp was just as quirky, just as delightful and just as thoughtful as Sharp’s other books. The book leads us through the life of an unusual girl who prefers to tread down the unconventional path in life.

  5. Aug 4, 2013 · At the age of twenty, Cluny Brown, the eponymous heroine of Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp, is tall, unattractive, and, as far as her uncle is concerned, trouble.

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Cluny_BrownCluny Brown - Wikipedia

    Cluny Brown is a 1946 American romantic comedy film made by Twentieth Century-Fox starring Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones. It was directed and produced by Ernst Lubitsch following a screenplay written by Samuel Hoffenstein and Elizabeth Reinhardt based on the 1944 novel by Margery Sharp .

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  8. Feb 14, 2024 · Cluny Brown works as a parlor maid in a country inn called Friars Carmel and there, she encounters a motley cast of characters. The novel, aside from being great fun to read, is a satirical look at British high society in the mid-twentieth century.

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