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In Brief Authority

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Thomas Anstey Guthrie, better known as F. Anstey, wrote "In Brief Authority," a satirical comedy, in 1915. The story revolves around a newly wealthy British family and their nanny, who are transported to the realm of fairy tales, Maerchenland, one evening by storks. The book expresses the clash between the mundane and the fantastical, the modern and the traditional.

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Thomas Anstey Guthrie

Sir Thomas Anstey Guthrie was an English writer, most noted for his comic novel Vice Versa about a boarding-school boy and his father exchanging identities. His reputation was confirmed by The Tinted Venus and many humorous parodies in Punch magazine.