49+ The Hundred And One Dalmatians Dodie Smith Background. Born dorothy gladys smith in lancashire, england, dodie smith was raised in manchester (her memoir is titled a childhood in manchester). It was originally serialized in woman's day as the great dog robbery, and details the adventures of two dalmatians named pongo and missis as they rescue their puppies from a fur farm.

The hundred and one dalmatians is a 1956 children's novel by dodie smith about the kidnapping of a family of dalmatian puppies. More images for the hundred and one dalmatians dodie smith » The author dorothy gladys dodie smith was born in england in 1896.

She was just an infant when her father died, and she grew up fatherless until age 14, when her mother remarried and the family moved to london.

It is a hardcover book with a dust jacket and also was printed as a book club edition. It was printed for viking press and published in 1957. She is best known for writing the children’s novel the hundred and one dalmatians. Who is mr dearly in the hundred and one dalmatians?