Mistress Masham's Repose

Mistress Masham's Repose (1946) 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, after the Second World War, but there is a strong flavour of the 18th century, both the fictional land of Lilliput and the British Empire of Swift, Gibbon, and Pope.

Maria does not go to school, and in church she has to walk all the way to her seat in oversized football boots which make a great deal of noise.

The story has a contemporary setting, after the Second World War; someone wants to talk to Churchill, but it is revealed Clement Attlee is the prime minister, and in one chapter Maria plays at being General Eisenhower greeting grateful subject peoples.

In 1989 a large de-luxe edition was published by the Folio Society, illustrated by Charles Stewart, with a red silk moiré cover.

[2] Joe Hale, the producer of The Black Cauldron (1985), began development on a film adaptation at Disney and had Andreas Deja to do preliminary artwork for it.