Articles
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“That talented authoress” Laura Morland
Angela’s alter ego, revealed by Sally Phillips Like Agatha Christie’s Ariadne Oliver, Angela Thirkell had an alter ego, Mrs Laura Morland, to whom she could attribute her own feelings and frustrations about her writing career. We first meet Laura Morland in High Rising (1933) when she is 45 (but doesn’t always look her age) and…
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Food and nostalgia in the novels of Angela Thirkell
Jill N Levin provided this fascinating and thought-provoking insight into the use of food in the novels of Angela Thirkell. “Food, nostalgia, and the self in the novels of Angela Thirkell” originally appeared in the 1997 edition of the Angela Thirkell Society Journal. Virginia Woolf began her married life not knowing how to cook. Cooking…
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Angela Thirkell, and the Church of England
Geoffrey Cox presented “Angela Thirkell, the Church of England and God?” as a paper to the Angela Thirkell Society North American Branch [NAB, now ATSNA] Conference in St Louis, Missouri. Geoffrey is a past editor of the Journal of the Angela Thirkell Society, and a prolific and very welcome contributor to both UK and US…