What Did It Mean? View By Angela Thirkell
| Title | : | What Did It Mean? |
| Author | : | Angela Thirkell |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 317 pages |
| ISBN | : | 1559212748 |
.A fictional stretch of English countryside in which a large and recurring cast of characters play out in stylish and comic comfort the conversations.that determine the destiny of a community The plot is set spinning when the forthright and capable Lydia Merton is asked by a deputation of distinguished ladies to chair the local committee, whose charge it is to plan fes.A fictional stretch of English countryside in which a large and recurring cast of characters play out in stylish and comic comfort the conversations.that determine the destiny of a community The plot is set spinning when the forthright and capable Lydia Merton is asked by a deputation of distinguished ladies to chair the local committee, whose charge it is to plan festivities to mark Coronation Day Queen Elizabeth II As Thirkell wittily reveals, there s no better place to observe the affections and jealousies, the pettiness and grace of a community and its individual members than in the hothouse of a volunteer committee Familiar characters are woven into the narrative web as plans progess, and, as always, romance is never far from Thirkell s sight
about Author
Angela Margaret Mackail was born on January 30, 1890 at 27 Young Street, Kensington Square, London Her grandfather was Sir Edward Burne Jones the pre Raphaelite painter and partner in the design firm of Morris and Company for whom he designed many stained glass windows seven of which are in St Margaret s Church in Rottingdean, West Sussex Her grandmother was Georgiana Macdonald, one of a prec Angela Margaret Mackail was born on January 30, 1890 at 27 Young Street, Kensington Square, London Her grandfather was Sir Edward Burne Jones the pre Raphaelite painter and partner in the design firm of Morris and Company for whom he designed many stained glass windows seven of which are in St Margaret s Church in Rottingdean, West Sussex Her grandmother was Georgiana Macdonald, one of a precocious family which included among others, Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, and Rudyard Kipling Angela s brother, Denis Mackail, was also a prolific and successful novelist Angela s mother, Margaret Burne Jones, married John Mackail an administrator at the Ministry of Education and Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.Angela married James Campbell McInnes in 1911 James was a professional Baritone and performed at concert halls throughout the UK In 1912 their first son Graham was born and in 1914 a second son, Colin A daughter was born in 1917 at the same time her marriage was breaking up In November 1917 a divorce was granted and Angela and the children went to live with her parents in Pembroke Gardens in London The child, Mary, died the next year.Angela then met and married George Lancelot Thirkell in 1918 and in 1920 they traveled on a troop ship to George s hometown in Australia Their adventures on the Friedricksruh are recounted in her Trooper to the Southern Cross published in 1934 In 1921, in Melbourne Australia, her youngest son Lancelot George was born Angela left Australia in 1929 with 8 year old Lance and never returned Although living with her parents in London she badly needed to earn a living so she set forth on the difficult road of the professional writer Her first book, Three Houses, a memoir of her happy childhood was published in 1931 and was an immediate success The first of her novels set in Trollope s mythical county of Barsetshire was Demon in the House, followed by 28 others, one each year.Angela also wrote a book of children s stories entitled The Grateful Sparrow using Ludwig Richter s illustrations a biography of Harriette Wilson, The Fortunes of Harriette an historical novel, Coronation Summer, an account of the events in London during Queen Victoria s Coronation in 1838 and three semi autobiographical novels, Ankle Deep and Oh, These Men, These Men and Trooper to the Southern Cross When Angela died on the 29th of January 1961 she left unfinished the last of her books, Three Score and Ten which was completed by her friend, Caroline LeJeune Angela is buried in Rottingdean alongside her daughter Mary and her Burne Jones grandparents 
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.A fictional stretch of English countryside in which a large and recurring cast of characters play out in stylish and comic comfort the conversations.
317 pagesAngela Thirkell
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