In a whole series of comic novels set in Barsetshire, AT
deliberately recreated an Anthony-Trollope
-like, present-day yet almost period world of the country gentry and the cathedral close. She called herself a sardonic...
Literary responses
Angela Thirkell
Penelope Fritzer
suspects that AT
's lesbians are a comment on the work of her novelist son Colin
, but his portrayals of gritty, male, urban homosexuality were still in the future.
Fritzer, Penelope. Ethnicity and Gender in the Barsetshire Novels of Angela Thirkell. Greenwood Press.
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Fritzer, Penelope. Ethnicity and Gender in the Barsetshire Novels of Angela Thirkell. Greenwood Press, 1999.