The Times review of High Rising saw in it an underlying impulse of feminism. It acutely noted, however, that AT
's heroines would shrink from the word feminism if not the thing
qtd. in
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth, 1977.
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—like...
Publishing
Angela Thirkell
About the time of her memoir Three Houses, AT
showed some friends and acquaintances a draft fiction entitled Three Sillies. E. V. Lucas
told her she had distinct talent although the typescript in...
Textual Production
Angela Thirkell
She was anxious about publication, partly because she had not told her parents that she was writing a novel: this led her mentor W. Graham Robertson
to liken her to Fanny Burney
.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth, 1977.
