The second reason, her uncle Harold Furber, an amateur actor, read plays with her and introduced her to contemporary drama. He was an avid theatregoer, and they had long talks about Shakespeare and melodrama. In her autobiography Look Back with Love (1974), she credits her grandfather William as one of three reasons she became a playwright. It faced the Manchester Ship Canal, and she lived with her mother, maternal grandparents, two aunts and three uncles. Dodie's childhood home, known as Kingston House, was at 609 Stretford Road.
Dodie and her mother moved to Old Trafford to live with her grandparents, William and Margaret Furber. Ernest was a bank manager he died in 1898 when Dodie was two years old.
Her parents were Ernest and Ella Smith (née Furber). Smith was born on in a house named Stoneycroft (number 118) on Bury New Road, Whitefield, near Bury in Lancashire, England. I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of the BBC's The Big Read (2003). Her novel I Capture the Castle was adapted into a 2003 film version. The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 animated film and a 1996 live-action film, both produced by Disney. Other works include Dear Octopus (1938) and The Starlight Barking (1967). She is best known for writing I Capture the Castle (1948) and the children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). The Hundred and One Dalmatians I Capture the Castle The Starlight Barkingĭorothy Gladys " Dodie" Smith ( – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright.
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