Amalia's Story, Chapter Twenty-Three
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
“A silly afternoon"
Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #14:
Miss Bunting!
by Angela Thirkell (1945)
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1945-1953: From World War to Cold War

Miss Bunting, governess to the County, fulfills her final days during a summer devoted to tutoring delicate Anne Fielding.
Class distinctions are sharply delineated, especially by Lady Fielding who tries, in vain, to minimize Anne’s contact with the ungainly Heather Adams.
Mr. Adams continues to involve himself in the affairs of the county, generating ambivalent feelings as well as obligations.
His kind inquiries re: Jane Gresham’s MIA husband earn her uneasy gratitude.
Feelings about Class seem a bit cruel here; perhaps in response to a sense that the barriers are about to fall.
Humorous tidbits continue to delight—see Mrs. Merivale’s mysterious “lodger.”
Again we encounter the Mixo-Lydians in the person of Gradka, whose ferocious rejoicing over a clash with ...