Angela Thirkell: The Headmistress

Cover: 9780349007472 | The Headmistress | Angela Thirkell | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2017

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The Beltons of Harefield Park, in financial straits endemic to the times, have leased the ancestral home to the Hosier's Girls School whose headmistress, Miss Sparling, a cut above the 'nouveau riche' students, is welcomed into village society. Sam Adams, a wealthy, self-made industrialist, and his lumpish daughter Heather are introduced and we glimpse 'the thin entering wedge' into the solid front of the old gentry. Mixo-Lydians backed by Dr Perry's wife, and Slavo-Lydians, clients of the mildly obnoxious Mrs Hunter, barely avoid violent confrontation; it is Mr Adams who gives short shrift to their belligerent solicitations. And we meet again the bemused Mrs Updike whose self-battering, as she careens through life, gives new meaning to accident-prone Miss Sparling reaches an understanding with perennial bachelor Sidney Carton and strong willed Elsa Belton is corralled by Captain Hornsby who declines to be jilted. The poignant relationship between Mrs Belton and her charming but prickly younger son, Charles, on embarkation leave, cuts through the lightheartedness and brings the war home.

Über den Autor

Angela Thirkell (1890-1961) was the eldest daughter of John William Mackail, a Scottish classical scholar and civil servant, and Margaret Burne-Jones. Her relatives included the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin, and her grandfather was J. M. Barrie. She was educated in London and Paris, and began publishing articles and stories in the 1920s. In 1931 she brought out her first book, a memoir entitled Three Houses, and in 1933 her comic novel High Rising - set in the fictional county of Barsetshire, borrowed from Trollope - met with great success. She went on to write nearly thirty Barsetshire novels, as well as several further works of fiction and non-fiction. She was twice married and had four children.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780349007472
ISBN-10:	0349007470
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Thirkell, Angela
Hersteller:	Little, Brown Book Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	198 x 123 x 30 mm
Von/Mit:	Angela Thirkell
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.01.2017
Gewicht:	0,304 kg

Artikel-ID: 103776330

Über den Autor

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780349007472
ISBN-10:	0349007470
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Thirkell, Angela
Hersteller:	Little, Brown Book Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	198 x 123 x 30 mm
Von/Mit:	Angela Thirkell
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.01.2017
Gewicht:	0,304 kg