“A Humble PRESENT to Our Female MOUNTAIN + From the CITIZENS + BOROUGH of LILLIPUT in EXILE”
T. H. White book Mistress Masham's Repose
Mistress Masham's Repose (1946)
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Mistress Masham's Repose is a novel by T. H. White that describes the adventures of a girl who discovers a group of Lilliputians, a race of tiny people from Jonathan Swift's satirical classic Gulliver's Travels. The story is set in Northamptonshire, England, just after the Second World War ; in one chapter Maria plays at being General Eisenhower greeting grateful subject peoples. Yet there is also a strong flavour of the 18th century, both the fictional land of Lilliput and the British Empire of Swift, Gibbon, and Pope. Imperialism, and the need for self-governance, is a major theme in the novel.
“They (the enemy) pottered off through Idiot's Utterly, High Hiccough, Malpaquet Middling and Mome.”
T. H. White book Mistress Masham's Repose
Mistress Masham's Repose (1946)
