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Merry Christmas!
Mr Villars’s private view that Christmas separated families that wanted to be together or, far worse, herded together together families for whom normally twelve counties were not large enough (Northbridge Rectory chapter 10) probably reflected the opinion of Our Author. However, greatly daring, Angela Thirkell Society committee members send their best wishes for Christmas and…
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Close Quarters
References and relusions from Angela Thirkell’s Close Quarters, first published in 1958. Compiled by Sue Jenkins Chapter 1 5 Borough of Riverside – Chelsea, London SW3, where Angela Thirkell lived at 1 Shawfield Street. Also Enter Sir Robert and A Double Affair. Borrioboola Gha – Fictional African country in Dickens’s Bleak House which Mrs Jellaby…
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Christmas at High Rising (2013)
Virago 7 short stories and an essay (Shakespeare Did Not Dine Out) 1. Pantomime 11 as clean as Bishop Hatto – Robert Southey’s poem ‘God’s judgment on a Wicked Bishop’ was based on a German folk tale 14 Master Wesendonck – a name chosen for its capacity to form schoolboy nicknames such as Donkey and…