Barsetshire series angela thirkell biography
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Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire
The Warden (1855)
Barchester Towers (1857)
Doctor Thorne (1858)
Framley Parsonage (1861)
The Small Semidetached at Allington(1864)
The Last Agreement of Barset (1867)
Angela Thirkell’s Barsetshire
High Rising(1933)
The Demon be sold for the House (1934)
Wild Strawberries (1934)
August Folly (1936)
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Angela Thirkell and Welcome to Barsetshire!
Dear Reader:
“What ho, what ho!”
Oops—wrong author!
Welcome to Angela Thirkell’s fictional county of Barsetshire! I have had a lovely summer reading through her 28 books, wallowing in the dizzying details of the county and its inhabitants—so interesting and so confusing, just like real life.
As I wrote in a previous post, I approached this project with a little trepidation, fearing that her novels wouldn’t hold up as well as I remembered them, but I am happy to say that they do. (“Too, too gratifying!” as one of her characters would say.) They are richly observed, fascinating in their detail, with sympathetic characters—and sometimes not-so-sympathetic ones like the odious Geoffrey Harvey, whose equally odious sister Frances is in the Department of Efficiency and Purging charged with getting rid of Undesirables in the government. They are funny, often in a surprisingly savage way; sometimes sentimental; and while they are romantic, in a yearning for the Golden Past sort of way, they are not really, after the first one or two in the series, romances.
(Above: This is actress Thelma Todd, but she looks as if she could be Glamora Tudor, doesn’t she?)
In a couple of weeks, I’ll write about the first book in the series, Hi • RRP £25.00 ✓ In stock Product information Delivery information Free UK standard delivery on all online orders over £25 All orders (standard delivery): £3.00 Next day (orders placed between 2pm Mon - Fri): £6.00 Standard delivery: 3-5 working days (Highlands and Islands 5-7 working days) Next day delivery: Available all UK excluding Highlands and Islands Collect your order from a local shop – prices and delivery times as aboveAngela Thirkell
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