Amalia's Story, Chapter Forty-One
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
"Introducing Angela Thirkell"
May 12, 2014
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"Her often caustic wit, her accurate and wickedly funny realisation of unforgettable characters, and her interpolation of an extraordinary range of references and allusions, ranging from Homeric similes through English literature from Shakespeare through Dickens (and of course Trollope) to her cousin Rudyard Kipling, historical episodes, nursery rhymes, laced with a sound knowledge of what everyday life was like, mean that one can read and re-read her books."—Angela Thirkell Society, UK. Portrait by John Collier, 1914
We currently have a rather spiffy set of uniform editions with lovely covers of novels by English writer Angela Margaret Thirkell (1890–1961). They're from a small publisher called Moyer Bell, and I've personally collected several of these handsome reissues in the past because I have long admired Moyer Bell's lists and trust their literary judgment. Daedalus is now offering a veritable bonanza of Thirkell, with ...