Innocuous story from the late ‘50s that has me pondering the difference between characters vs caricatures in writing. Mrs Harris is one of the great creations of fiction - so real that you feel you know her, yet truly magical as well.

For it had not been a dress she had bought so much as an adventure and an experience that would last her to the end of her days. I’m in love with Mrs Harris, she’s such a stickler for values but will bend rules if they’re hurting no one. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.Arris Goes to Paris, and republished together recently by Bloomsbury, with its aspirate in place), Mrs. Charwoman is a British term for a domestic servant, a woman hired by the day who does house cleaning and odd jobs around the house.

Harris Goes to New York – since she did not know exactly who might Henry Brown’s father, she needed to go and visit every Mr. Oh yes, you definitely can’t read Mrs Harris Goes to New York before reading Mrs Harris Goes to Paris first, so you did right to wait! She enchants everyone she meets – and I mean that almost literally, in that she seems to be a fairy godmother, changing their lives for the better through Cockney wisdom and irrepressible optimism. To Mrs Harris, the dress represents everything she has never had; glamour, sophistication, beauty; a window into a way of life that she could never dream of experiencing. On a side note–I have gotten atrociously behind in blog reading and have several weeks worth of posts to catch up with–but in case I miss anymore posts before your new journey begins–Have a great trip to NYC and I can’t wait to hear about your new adventures!Arris Goes to Paris—the first in a series of books written by Paul Gallico about the housekeeper Ada Harris—but it took more than just time for the narrative to become director Anthony Fabian’s charming movie. Not just because the two stories in it were first published in 1958 and 1960, but because the world has changed so much since then.