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T. H. White (1906 –1964) was an English writer best known for his Arthurian novels, published together in 1958 as The Once and Future King. One of his most memorable is the first of the series,The Sword in the Stone, published as a stand-alone book in 1938. 

Mistress Masham's Repose (1946) 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 Lilliputand the British Empire of Swift, Gibbon, and Pope. Imperialism, and the need for self-governance, is a major themein the novel.