Thirkell began writing this book late in 1934 (under pressure of anxiety because her first husband, James Campbell McInnes
, was back in England from Canada for the first time in years). To her publisher,...
Family and Intimate relationships
Angela Thirkell
Angela Mackail (later AT
) married, at St Philip's Church, Kensington, James Campbell McInnes
, whom she had met only six weeks before.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Angela Thirkell
Angela McInnes (later AT
) divorced her first husband
on the grounds of cruelty and adultery; she received custody of their children.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Angela Thirkell
James Campbell McInnes
was a concert baritone and later a professor of music, who came from a family of mill-workers. He found men as sexually attractive as women: by the time he met Angela he...