ANGELA THIRKELL was born in London in 1890. At the age of twenty-eight, she moved to Melbourne, Australia where she became involved in broadcasting and was a frequent contributor to the British periodicals. She did not begin writing novels until she returned to Britain in 1930 but then produced one book a year almost every year until her death in 1961.
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Angela Thirkell: Three Houses
‘There is always in our minds the hope that we may find again those golden unhastening days and wake up and dream.’ – Angela Thirkell Angela Thirkell, the cousin of Rudyard Kipling and the granddaugh …
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Angela Thirkell: Before Lunch
Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He may be pompous, and they may seem ill-matched, but the couple are dev …
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Angela Thirkell: Cheerfulness Breaks In
‘You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own’ New York Times It is summer 1939 and the social event of the year is about to take place: R …
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Angela Thirkell: High Rising
Successful lady novelist Laura Morland and her boisterous young son Tony set off to spend Christmas at her country home in the sleepy surrounds of High Rising. But Laura’s wealthy friend and neighbou …
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Angela Thirkell: Wild Strawberries
Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her Aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls head over heels for handsome playboy David Leslie. Meanwhile, Agnes a …
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Angela Thirkell: August Folly
Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself – Alexander Mc Call It’s August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted, and Richard Tebben, just down fr …
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Angela Thirkell: Summer Half
To his parents’ dismay, Colin Keith – out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university graduates – chooses to quit his training for the Bar and take a teaching jo …
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Angela Thirkell: Brandons
Lavinia Brandon is quite the loveliest widow in Barsetshire, blessed with beauty and grace, as well as two handsome grown-up children, Delia and Francis. So thinks their cousin Hilary Grant when he c …
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Angela Thirkell: Pomfret Towers
Pomfret Towers, Barsetshire seat of the earls of Pomfret, was constructed, with great pomp and want of concern for creature comforts, in the once-fashionable style of Sir Gilbert Scott’s St Pancras s …
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Angela Thirkell: High Rising
The headmaster’s wife twisted herself round in her chair to talk to Mrs. Morland, who was sitting in the row just behind her. ‘I can’t make out, ’ she said reflectively, ‘why all the big boys seem to …
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Angela Thirkell: Wild Strawberries
The Vicar of St. Mary’s, Rushwater, looked anxiously through the vestry window which commanded a view of the little gate in the churchyard wall. Through this gate the Leslie family had come to …
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Angela Thirkell: The Demon in the House
When Tony Morland wasn’t at school he lived with his mother in the country. His father had died so long ago that he couldn’t remember him, so he just thought that fathers were things othe …
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Angela Thirkell: August Folly
The little village of Worsted, some sixty miles west of London, is still, owing to the very defective railway system which hardly attempts to serve it, to a great extent unspoilt. To reach it you mus …
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Angela Thirkell: Pomfret Towers
Nutfield is quite the most delightful town in that part of England. Most of the land round it is owned by families who have remained rich enough not to be obliged to sell their estates, so the specul …
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Angela Thirkell: The Brandons
“I wonder who this is from, ” said Mrs. Brandon, picking a letter out of the heap that lay by her plate and holding it at arm’s length upside down. “It is quite extraordinary how I can’t see without …
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Angela Thirkell: Before Lunch
The owner of Laverings looked out of his bedroom window on a dewy June morning. Not the large window that commanded a gently sloping view to the south of his garden, his meadows, and a wooded plain w …
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Angela Thirkell: Summer Half
The sudden collapse into complete senility of that licensed old impostor, Mr Bradford, had made it possible for the new headmaster to make some changes in the staff and replace him by a young man, no …
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Angela Thirkell: Cheerfulness Breaks In: A Barsetshire War Survey
To all those who had admired and disliked the lovely Rose Birkett it appeared (with the greatest respect for the Royal Navy) quite inevitable that she should marry a naval man. As the elder daughter …
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Angela Thirkell: Northbridge Rectory
As everyone knows Northbridge High Street there is no need to describe it, so we will proceed to do so. Northbridge, a famous centre for the wool trade of the South in the sixteenth and seventeenth c …
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Angela Thirkell: Marling Hall
Marling Hall stands on a little eminence among what would in more golden days have been called well-wooded parkland. Owing to death duties and other ameliorative influences a number of its fine oaks …
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Angela Thirkell: Growing Up
TO the youth of England, except to that small and misguided section who prefer model aeroplanes to model railways, the station at Winter Overcotes, as all students of Barsetshire know, represents His …
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Angela Thirkell: The Headmistress
The pretty and formerly peaceful village of Harefield lies in a valley watered by the upper reaches of the River Rising, under the downs. The Rising, here no more than a stream, flows in many silvery …
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Angela Thirkell: Miss Bunting
The great Duke of Omnium, as is well known, not only disliked railways but refused to acknowledge their existence. After the death of the old Duke’s successor, formerly Mr. Plantagenet Palliser …
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Angela Thirkell: Peace Breaks Out
ABOUT half way between Little Misfit and High Rising the pleasant village of Hatch End, close under the steep downland, straggles along one side of the river Rising, separated from it by the road and …
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Angela Thirkell: Private Enterprise
Mrs. Noel Merton looked out of the dining-room window with considerable displeasure. It was mid-May and for at least the one hundred and thirty-fifth time that year the day was beginning with cold gr …
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Angela Thirkell: County Chronicle
Miss Lucy Marling, as we all know, had a great deal of courage and a dogged perseverance that had helped her through many difficulties connected with the market gardening and farming ventures of her …
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Angela Thirkell: The Duke’s Daughter
Deep as had been the county’s interest in the marriage of Mr. Adams the wealthy ironmaster and Lucy Marling, daughter of old Squire Marling, even deeper was its curiosity about their future. So …
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Angela Thirkell: Double Affair
A "charming troupe" of Barsetshire inhabitants celebrate a spate of marriages-while one young woman bemoans her prospects-in this novel of 1950s English life (The New York Times).The locals …
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Angela Thirkell: Close Quarters
A widow goes house-hunting in Barsetshire in this witty, moving novel by an author of "graceful stories of upper-class English life" (The New York Times).One rainy summer, amid the social a …
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Angela Thirkell: Enter Sir Robert
The missing lord of the manor looms large in this quirky novel by an author who offers "a fresh, original, witty interpretation of England’s social history" (The New York Times).Lady Graham …
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Angela Thirkell: Love at All Ages
From a starry-eyed teenager to an elderly clergyman, it seems no one is immune to romance in the county of Barsetshire . . . In the long-running and beloved series that brings Anthony Trollope’s Bars …
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Angela Thirkell: Never too Late
A picturesque community in postwar England comes together when it counts in this witty, moving novel in the "beloved" Barsetshire series (Publishers Weekly).Edith Graham is still single whe …
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Angela Thirkell: Private Enterprise
Amid food shortages and grumbling, Barsetshire is unsettled by the arrival of a pretty war widow in this "delicately humorous [and] entertaining" novel (The New York Times).World War II may …
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Angela Thirkell: Demon in the House
In 1930s England, a beleaguered mother frets over her twelve-year-old’s "skirmishes with the grown-up world and his schoolmasters . . . amusingly told" (Kirkus Reviews).Laura Morland loves …
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Angela Thirkell: What Did It Mean?
As Elizabeth II’s coronation draws near, the gentry of Barsetshire engage in preparations, committee meetings, and "their perennially amusing antics" (The New York Times).A new queen is abo …
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Angela Thirkell: Duke’s Daughter
Matches are being made among the cream of postwar English society in this novel of "warmth, whimsy, quirks, and vinegar with a dash of vitriol"(The New York Times).The England of old may be …
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Angela Thirkell: Old Bank House
‘Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself’ – Alexander Mc Call Smith Edgewood Rectory may be set in an ancient land …
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Angela Thirkell: Three Score and Ten
Barsetshire gathers to celebrate a milestone birthday at the Old Bank House in this conclusion to the much-loved, long-running series.A home is saved from destruction, a budding romance takes steps t …
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Angela Thirkell: Love Among the Ruins
‘You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own’ New York Times It’s the summer of 1947, and peacetime has brought new challenges to Barsets …
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Angela Thirkell: Happy Returns
"Her writing celebrates the solid parochial English virtues of stiff-upper-lippery, good-sportingness, [and] dislike of fuss. . . . Light, witty, easygoing books." -The New Yorker As 1951 d …
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Angela Thirkell: Marling Hall
‘You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own’ New York Times Mr Marling, of Marling Hall, has begun to accept – albeit reluctantly – that …
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Angela Thirkell: Headmistress
Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls’ school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. M …
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Angela Thirkell: Growing Up
Barsetshire in the war years. Growing Up is the story of ladies, gentlemen, and their irrepressible children keeping the war at bay in their country town. Trying to do their part as the Second World …
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Angela Thirkell: Peace Breaks Out
‘You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own’ New York Times It is 1945. When peace breaks out at last, familiar wartime routines are int …
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Angela Thirkell: Bienvenidos a High Rising
Laura Morland, una exitosa escritora de «buenos malos libros», se dispone a pasar unas semanas de feliz reposo en su casa de campo en el pueblecito de High Rising. Una vez allí, sin embargo, se ve en …
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Angela Thirkell: Fresas salvajes
La atractiva Mary Preston, una joven perteneciente a una buena familia venida a menos, es invitada a la espléndida y lujosa finca de los Leslie en Rushwater. Allí, Mary perderá la cabeza por el apues …
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