Amalia's Story, Chapter Thirteen
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #4:
August Folly!
by Angela Thirkell (1936)
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TIMELINE: The 1936 Olympics
In the Palmer and the Tebben’s families, we meet two of the less congenial figures among the Barsetshire gentry; young Richard Tebben and Louise Palmer.
However, since Thirkell’s people are never all of a piece, bossy Mrs. Palmer’s nasty treatment of Margaret Tebben is partially redeemed by her handsome apology and Richard’s heroic rescue of young Jessica Dean from a bemused bull leaves him unreformed in his ...