Amalia's Story, Chapter Twenty-Two
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"I have no idea." (Ed.)
Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #13:
The Headmistress!
by Angela Thirkell (1944)
https://angelathirkellsociety.org/writings/book-summaries/
The Suspect (1944)

"The Beltons of Harefield Park, in financial straits endemic to the times, have leased the ancestral home to the Hosier’s Girls School whose headmistress, Miss Sparling, a cut above the 'nouveau riche' students, is welcomed into village society.
Sam Adams, a wealthy, self-made industrialist, and his lumpish daughter Heather are introduced and we glimpse 'the thin entering wedge' into the solid front of the old gentry.
Mixo-Lydians . . .
'Corcovado'
https://youtu.be/DXHjTkKEups?si=oWQny1G4AfmSRjXV
. . . backed by Dr. Perry’s wife, and
Slavo-Lydians . . .
'The Conquest of The Lydian Kingdom'
https://youtu.be/UfO6Atfvzis?si=SnMvz0Eip3RlIKgt
. . . clients of the mildly obnoxious Mrs. Hunter, barely avoid violent confrontation; it is Mr. Adams who gives short shrift to their belligerent solicitations.
And we meet again the bemused Mrs. Updike whose self-battering, as she...