Amalia's Story, Chapter Thirty-Eight
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
Angela Thirkell Book Summaries #29:
"Odious"
Three Score and Ten!
by Angela Thirkell and C. A. Lejeune (1962)
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Flashback to 1962 - A Timeline of Life in America

The last of the Barsetshire novels, left unfinished by Thirkell at her death at 75, was completed from extensive notes by a friend and fellow writer, C. A. Lejeune.
Regardless of its provenance, it is a remarkable reprise of the whole series.
Mrs. Morland (Thirkell’s alter-ego?), the protagonist of the first book, High Rising (1933), is again the center of the action.
She turns seventy affording the opportunity for a final gathering of our favorite people who continue to act as expected on all occasions.
Young Robin Morland, son of the irrepressible Tony, helps or hinders or both at once.
Along the way, Wiple Terrace with its motley complement of tenants is rescued from the depredations of the odious Lord Aberfordbury (of Pooker’s ...