Amalia's Story, Chapter Twenty-Five
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
“Ministry of General Interference”
Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #16:
Private Enterprise!
by Angela Thirkell (1947)
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Looking Back - On 1947 (1947)

The social minuet of the society of Barsetshire continues.
Predictably, Thirkell produces a stream of matrimonial fodder, both young and not-so-young.
Youngsters from previous volumes grow up, marry and reproduce, and replace oldsters who retire or move on.
Newcomers advance and retreat and, in some instances, remain as permanent players.
The Brandons reappear and past threads are picked up and ingeniously woven into the social fabric to the satisfaction of all.
Mild flirtations and an “affair” of three generations ago are the closest we come to scandal.
Thirkell’s humor reveals itself most trenchantly in her minor characters (see the comfortable bickering of Vicar Horton and his younger aunt) and in her singular names for places, events, and groups; here we have
“The Home for Stiff-Necked Clergy,”
“Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ...