Angela Thirkell
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Standard Name: Thirkell, Angela
Birth Name: Angela Margaret Mackail
Pseudonym: Leslie Parker
Married Name: Angela Margaret McInnes
Married Name: Angela Margaret Thirkell
Married Name: Mrs G. L. Thirkell
, 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.
Timeline
Texts
Thirkell, Angela. Ankle Deep. Hamish Hamilton, 1933.
Thirkell, Angela. August Folly. Hamish Hamilton, 1936.
Thirkell, Angela. Before Lunch. Hamish Hamilton, 1939.
Thirkell, Angela. Cheerfulness Breaks In. Hamish Hamilton, 1940.
Thirkell, Angela. Coronation Summer. Oxford University Press, 1937.
Thirkell, Angela. County Chronicle. Hamish Hamilton, 1950.
Thirkell, Angela. Growing Up. Hamish Hamilton, 1943.
Thirkell, Angela. High Rising. Hamish Hamilton, 1933.
Gould, Tony, and Angela Thirkell. “Introduction”. Trooper to the Southern Cross, Virago, 1985, p. v - xiii.
Thirkell, Angela. Jutland Cottage. Hamish Hamilton, 1953.
Thirkell, Angela. Marling Hall. Hamish Hamilton, 1942.
Thirkell, Angela. Miss Bunting. Hamish Hamilton, 1945.
Thirkell, Angela. Northbridge Rectory. Hamish Hamilton, 1941.
Thirkell, Angela. O, these Men, these Men. Hamish Hamilton, 1935.
Thirkell, Angela. Pomfret Towers. Hamish Hamilton, 1938.
Thirkell, Angela. Summer Half. Hamish Hamilton, 1937.
Thirkell, Angela. The Brandons. Hamish Hamilton, 1939.
Thirkell, Angela. The Demon in the House. Hamish Hamilton, 1934.
Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton, 1936.
Thirkell, Angela, and Ludwig Richter. The Grateful Sparrow and Other Tales. Hamish Hamilton, 1935.
Thirkell, Angela. The Headmistress. Hamish Hamilton, 1944.
Thirkell, Angela. Three Houses. Oxford University Press, 1931.
Thirkell, Angela. Three Houses. Robin Clark, 1986.
Thirkell, Angela, and Caroline Alice Lejeune. Three Score and Ten. Hamish Hamilton, 1961.
Thirkell, Angela. Trooper to the Southern Cross. Faber and Faber, 1934.