DS
's friend and manager, Alec Beesley
(together with Esmé Wynne
), gave her a birthday gift that proved to be an important literary inspiration: a Dalmatian named Pongo.
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
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Whelehan, Imelda et al., editors. “A doggy fairy tale: The film metamorphoses of The Hundred and One DalmatiansAdaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text, Routledge, 1999, pp. 214-25.
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Wynne-Tyson, Jon. Finding the Words: A Publishing Life. Michael Russell, 2004.
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Friends, Associates
Dodie Smith
She formed friendships around this time with other aspiring actresses, Esmé Wynne (who later, as Esmé Wynne-Tyson
, wrote plays, novels, and journalism, and who was always supportive of Smith's career) and Phyllis Morris
...
Textual Production
Dodie Smith
DS
's letters and journals—along with the typescript for her fifth, unpublished volume of autobiography—are held at Boston University
's Mugar Memorial Library
in Boston, Massachusetts.
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996.