Book description
Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth London charlady who cheerfully
cleans the houses of the rich. One day, when tidying Lady Dant's
wardrobe, she comes across the most beautiful thing she has ever seen
in her life - a Dior dress. In all the years of her drab and humble
existence, she's never seen anything as magical as the dress before
her and she's never wanted anything as much before. Determined to make
her dream come true, Mrs Harris scrimps, saves and slaves away until
one day, after three long, uncomplaining years, she finally has enough
money to go to Paris.
When she arrives at the House of Dior, Mrs Harris has little idea
of how her life is about to be turned upside down and how many other
lives she will transform forever. Always kind, always cheery and
always winsome, the indomitable Mrs Harris takes Paris by storm and
learns one of life's greatest lessons along the way.
This treasure from the 1950s introduces the irrepressible Mrs
Harris, part charlady, part fairy-godmother, whose adventures take her
from her humble London roots to the heights of glamour.
â  A heartwarming, engaging novelette' Paul Gallico was born in
New York City, of Italian and Austrian parentage, in 1897, and attended
Columbia University. From 1922 to 1936 he worked on the
New York
Daily News
as sports editor, columnist, and assistant managing editor. In 1936 he
bought a house on top of a hill at Salcombe in South Devon and settled
down with a Great Dane and twenty-three assorted cats. It was in 1941
that he made his name with
The Snow Goose
, a classic story of Dunkirk which became a world-wide best-seller.
Having served as a gunner s mate in the U. S. Navy in 1918, he was again
active as a war correspondent with the American Expeditionary Force in
1944. Paul Gallico, who later lived in Monaco, was a first-class fencer
and a keen sea-fisherman. He wrote over forty books, four of which were
the adventures of Mrs Harris:
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
(1958),
Mrs Harris Goes to New York
(1959),
Mrs. Harris, M. P
. (1965) and
Mrs Harris Goes to Moscow
(1974). One of the most prolific and professional of American authors,
Paul Gallico died in July 1976. He was married four times and had
several children.
