Angela Thirkell
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, having already published journalism (some of it literary) and a family memoir, launched her career as a novelist in the 1930s (her own early forties) and continued publishing for nearly thirty years at the rate of a title a year or more. Among her novels the best-known are those of the long Barsetshire series: stories of English village life where characters are effortlessly eccentric, and issues of class, nationality, gender, and sexual preference are presented with a characteristic blend of naiveté, obliquity, and straight-faced humour. She also published a children's book, a historical biography, and introductions to reprints of other authors' novels.
- BirthName: Angela Margaret Mackail
- Married: McInnes; Thirkell; Mrs G. L. ThirkellMiss, as women writers often were when not writing under their married name.preferred this form of address in social life. Though she published as Angela Thirkell she did not like to be addressed in this way, or to be called
- Pseudonym: Leslie Parker