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Download or read book Wild Writing Granny written by Mary Sheepshanks and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild Writing Granny is a book full of delight. It is shot through with love, anguish, light, darkness and fun. If you enjoy reading about English schoolmasters, matrons and schoolboys, you'll adore it. Mary Sheepshanks is a skilled and wise writer. Her thumbnail sketches are so controlled, so accurate, so honest and concise, that within three lines of being introduced to the 130th character you have laughed and almost cried. She was born Mary Nickson, the daughter of an Eton junior master who later became a housemaster, and the first chapters of the book describe Eton as seen through the eyes of a little girl living in Baldwin's End Cottage, with a view of horses grazing on Fellows' Eyot out of one window, and of Windsor Castle out of another. Her father was much loved, a man who 'created virtue by imputing it'. He drew cartoons on the boys' fortnightly order cards and flipped them frisbee-like across the classroom, accurately aiming for each boy in turn