OTHER ANGELA THIRKELL WRITINGS AND REFERENCES

We are indebted to Mr. D. J. Gilson and The Journal of The Angela Thirkell Society for the Angela Thirkell bibliography. The secondary sources were provided by Dr. Penelope Fritzer, Florida Atlantic University.

The First Nowell, Illustrated London News, Christmas Number 1934.
Pantomime. Tony, of High Rising, Discovers Ecstasy, Harper's Bazaar 11, No. 5, February, 1935.
The Great Art of Riding with Tony of High Rising and George Knox, Harper's Bazaar 12, No. 6, September 1935.
St. Valentine's holiday: a Tony Morland Story, Harper's Bazaar, No. 5, February 1936.
High Voltage at Low Rising: a Tony Morland Story, Harper's Bazaar 15, No. 1, January 1937.
Mr. Tupper and the poets...: a Victorian Best Seller, The Times Literary Supplement, 26 February 1938.
Mapmaking in Barsetshire, The Trollopian 3, March 1949.
David Copperfield Reconsidered, The Dickensian 45, June 1949.
More than Fifty Years ago: Memories of Christmas Told Enchantingly for children...of All Ages, Home and Gardens 30, No. 6, December 1949.
The Horatian Society, Address delivered before the Society at its Dinner Held at the Savoy Hotel on 18 July 1950. (three paragraphs).
Henry Kingsley, the St. John and Red Cross Hospital Library Broadsheet 5, No. 4, August 1950.
Henry Kingsley, 1830-1876, Nineteenth Century Fiction 5, March 1951.
Three Reasons Why I like Australia, South Australian Homes and Gardens, December 1950.
The Works of Henry Kingsley, Nineteenth Century Fiction 5, March 1951.
Morning, afternoon, and night, Short novel published in four consecutive issues of Homes and Gardens, No. 10,11,12, and 13, April-July, 1951.
Edwin Drood on the Stage, the Dickensian, 47, Summer 1951.
The Advance of Science, Spectator 187, 17 August 1951.
Operation Zebra, Spectator 188, 4 January 1952. Reprinted in Spectator Harvest, with a foreword by Wilson Harris. Hamish Hamilton, 1952.
Angela Thirkell Writes for you, the Writer 12, July 1953.
Angela Thirkell tells how the reader looks at books - from the Author's Point of View, the Writer 16, October 1955.
In the Gargoyle: A Gentlemanly Night Club, Melbourne Argus (date unknown)

IN ANTHOLOGIES

Christmas at Mulberry Lodge, Shining Tree and other Christmas stories, by Hildegarde Hawthorne and others, Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.
Nice Day in Town, in London Calling, edited by Storm Jameson, Harper, 1942.

REVIEWS

Review of The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy by William Gaunt, Book of the Month, May 1942.
Review of A Score of ghosts, Truth 152, of Lady Cynthia Asquith's The Second Ghost Book.
Review of The Little Emperors, by Alfred Duggan, New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 1 February 1953.
Review of William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary by E. P. Thompson, Library Review Summery 1955.

INTRODUCTIONS

Persuasion, by Jane Austen, Williams & Norgate Ltd. 1946.
Cranford, by Mrs. Gaskell, The Novel Library, Hamish Hamilton, 1951.
The Newcomes, by William Makepeace Thackery, Cambridge University Press for the Limited Editions Club , 1954.
The Warden, by Anthony Trollope, Limited Editions Club/Heritage Press, 1955.
Essays by Divers Hands, Edited by Angela Thirkell for the Royal Society of Literature, New Series, Oxford University Press, 1956.
Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope, Limited Editions Club/Heritage Press, 1958.

EARLY CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS

"Letters from a Shepherd of Arcady to a Little Girl", Cornhill Magazine, November 1921.
"An evening with J.M. Barrie", The Forum, June 1922.
"The Irish Players and some Critics", The forum, 5 July 1922.
"Manual Garcia, the Teacher of Jenny Lind: Some notes and personal Reminiscences", Cornhill Magazine, September 1922.
"Kipling and the Tourists", The Forum, 8 November 1922.
"Songs my Nurses Taught me", Cornhill Magazine, September 1923.
"British Music in Melbourne", The Forum, 16 January 1924.
"William Paton Ker: an Anniversary Memoir from Overseas", Cornhill Magazine, July 1924.
"Chequers: The Baldwins at Home: Prime Minister's Diversions", The Argus, 31 March 1928.
"On Stanley", The West Australian, 21 April 1928.
"Our Charming Decadents and these Alarming Women: A Plea for some Sartorial Distinction for the Indication of Sex", The Home, 1 May 1928.
"A film Society: London Example, Interesting Pictures", The Argus, 5 May 1928.
"The Charm of Birds, Viscountess Grey at home", The Argus, 26 May 1928.
"Food and Art: The Tate Gallery with its aesthetic and gastric appeals: and a suggestion for mural decoration in Australia", The home, 1 June 1928.
"Thoughts on Turkish baths, with a note on the horrors of being an introvert", The Home, 2 July 1928.
"Shakespeare did not dine out", Cornhill Magazine, August 1928.
"A Healthy Mind in a Clean Body", The Home, 1 September 1928.
"Lord Balfour: Some Reminiscences", the Argus Camera Supplement, 29 September 1928.
"Rossetti, 1828-1882", Sidney Morning Herald, 29 September 1928.
"Kipling's Uncle: Frederick W. Macdonald, 1842-1928". Sydney Morning Herald, 20 October 1928.
"Casanova, the press and the Censor: Being a Plea for a Little Less Moral Protection", The Home 1 November 1928.
"R.L.S. A footnote to one of his letters. A Girlhood Memory", Observer, 11 November 1928.
"Why I am not an Ancient Roman", London Mercury, December 1928.
"Australia in 1842: How a Convict Prospered", Argus, 9 March 1929.
"Gravely Speaking of these Final Departures", The Home, 1 May 1929.
"The Sneakthief: showing how these Modern Conditions are Responsible for the Loss of Some of our most Cherished Evils", The Home 1 May 1929.
"Virgil and the Goats", Spectator 15 June 1929.
"Mamsell Fredrika, Fortnightly Review", August 1929.
"An Australian Valley: where the Bush Begins", The Times 26 August 1929.
"Euterpe in Melbourne: a note on Fritz Hart and the new Miracles he is Working in Music", The Home, 2 September 1929.
"Why Marry a Sleuth?" The Home, 1 April 1930.
"Divagations on the Censorship", The Home, 1 July 1930.
"A Grandfather of Famous Men: George Browne MacDonald, 1805-1869", The Page, 5 July 1930.
"Charles Risohbieth Jury: The Adelaide Poet", The Page, 23 August 1930.
"A Week in an Australian Country House", The National Review, September 1930.
"The Modern Boy", the Australian Woman's World, 1 November 1930.
"We shall going in England", Cornhill Magazine, November 1931.
"Mother Goose: A critical Review of her collected works", London Mercury, May 1932.
"A Contribution to Clara Gazul", Cornhill Magazine, June 1932.
"Wilfred Heeley's Letters from India: 1857", The National Review, March 1934.
"Up the Airy Mountain" (a long short story published in five consecutive issues), the News Chronicle, 29 October - 2 November, 1934.
"The Private View", Cornhill Magazine, November 1934.

ANGELA THIRKELL SECONDARY SOURCES

(includes material on general aspects of relevant social history)

Adam, Ruth. A Woman’s Place: 1910-1975. London: Persephone Books, 2002.
Amos, William. The Originals: Who’s Really Who in Fiction. London: Cape, 1985. (Also published as The Originals: A—Z of Fiction’s Real-life Characters. Boston: Little Brown, 1985.)
Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Balakian, Nina. “Talk With Angela Thirkell.” Journal of the Angela Thirkell Society. 1990. 10: 15—16.
Barry, Iris. Review of Private Enterprise, by Angela Thirkell. New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, 18 Jan. 1948: 3.
Basso, Hamilton. Review of Miss Bunting, by Angela Thirkell. The New Yorker. 2 Mar. 1946: 22: 84
Becker. M. L. Review of Northbridge Rectory, by Angela Thirkell. Book., 4 Jan. 1942: 3.
Bell, Hazel. “In Other’s Words, on the Use of Quotes in Angela Thirkell.” Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Volume 34, Number 4, July 2003.
Bell, Hazel K. “Self-portrait of the Writer as an Ideal Mother: Laura Morland as Angela Thirkell.” Journal of the Angela Thirkell Society. No. 13, 1993:23—26.
Bell, Hazel K. "A tale told by an index: Collating the writings of Angela Thirkell." http://www.aidanbell.com/pdfs/taletold.pdf
Bell, Hazel K. “Coronation Summer and after: Angela Thirkell’s ‘extra books.’” http://www.aidanbell.com/pdfs/csummer.pdf
Bell, Hazel K. “I name this child . . .” http://www.aidanbell.com/pdfs/namech.pdf
Bell, Hazel K. “Self-portrait of the writer as an ideal mother: Laura Morland as Angela Thirkell.” http://www.aidanbell.com/pdfs/selfport.pdf
Bell, Hazel K. “Book Reviews and Thirkell Criticism.” http://www.aidanbell.com/pdfs/crit.pdf
Bell, Hazel K.” Two English lady novelists: The ATS and the BPS.” http://www.aidanbell.com/pdfs/atsbps.pdf
Blake, Robert. The Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill. London: Eyre & Spottiswode, 1970.
Britten, F. H. Review of Wild Strawberries, by Angela Thirkell. Books. 26 Aug. 1934: 2.
Brittain, Vera. England’s Hour. Pleasantville, NY: The Akadine Press, 2002 [orig. 1941].
Brooks, Anne. Review of County Chronicle, by Angela Thirkell. New York Herald Tribune Book Review. 22 Oct. I950: 8.
Brooks, Anne. Review of Happy Return, by Angela Thirkell, New York Herald Tribune Book Review. 21 Sept. 1952: 8.
Bullock, F. H. Review of The Headmistress, by Angela Thirkell. Book Week. 21 Jan. 1945: 3.
Burrell, Barbara. Angela Thirkell’s World: A Guide to the People and Places of Barsetshire. Wakefield, RI: Moyer-Bell, 2001.
Calder, Angus. The Myth of the Blitz. London: Pimlico, 1991.
Carruthers, Olive. Review of Enter Sir Robert, by Angela Thirkell. Chicago Sunday Tribune. 16 Oct. 1955: 3.
Chapman, H. W. Review of Private Enterprise, by Angela Thirkell. The Spectator. 5 Dec. 1947. 179:722.
Cheerfulness Breaks In. review of, by Angela Thirkell. Catholic World. May 1941. 153: 252.
Cheerfulness Breaks In. review of, by Angela Thirkell. The Times (London) Literary Supplement. 5 Oct. 1940: 505.
Clare, Hilary. “Angela Thirkell and Anthony Trollope.” Journal of the Angela Thirkell Society. No. 14, 1994: 14—18.
Collins, Laura Roberts. English Country Life in the Barsetshire Novels of Angela Thirkell. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Commire, Anne. Ed. “Thirkell, Angela (1890-1961).” Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. Waterford CT: Yorkin Publications, 2002. 383-384.
Cox, Geoffrey. “Barsetshire, a Sense of Place” Journal of the Angela Thirkell Society. No. 24, 2004.
Crosland, Margaret. Beyond the Lighthouse: English Women Novelist in the Twentieth Century. New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1981.
Dangerfield, George. Review of Love Among the Ruins, by Angela Thirkell. Saturday Review of Literature. 15 Jan. 1949. 32: 18.
The Duke’s Daughter, review of, by Angela Thirkell. The Times (London) Literary Supplement. 28 Sept. 1951: 617.
Ellis, Andrew. “Hermione Rivers and Ann Bridge.” Journal of the Angela Thirkell Society. 1994. 14: 30—31.
Fadiman, Clifton. Review of The Brandons, by Angela Thirkell. The New Yorker. 1 July 1939. 15: 66.
Fausset, H.I’A. Review of Peace Breaks Out, by Angela Thirkell. Manchester Guardian. 14 Feb. 1947: 3.
Feld, Rose. Review of The Brandons, by Angela Thirkell. Books. 4 June 1939: 4.
Feld, Rose. Review of Before Lunch, by Angela Thirkell. Books. 2 June 1940: 3.
Field, L. M. Review of The Brandons, by Angela Thirkell. New York Times. 25 June 1939: 6.
Field. L. M. Review of Northbridge Rectory, by Angela Thirkell. New York Times. 11 Jan. 1942: 6.
Forbes-Boyd, Eric. Review of Before Lunch, by Angela Thirkell. Christian Science Monitor. 3 Feb. 1940: 11.
Fritzer, Penelope. Aesthetics and Nostalgia in the Barsetshire Novels of Angela Thirkell. San Diego: Angela Thirkell Society North America. 2010.
Fritzer, Penelope. Character and Concept in the Barsetshire Novels of Angela Thirkell. San Diego: Angela Thirkell Society North America, 2005.
Fritzer, Penelope. Ethnicity and Gender in the Barsetshire Novels of Angela Thirkell. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Gill, Richard. Happy Rural Seat: The English Country House and the Literary Imagination. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972.
Greene, Graham. Review of Wild Strawberries, by Angela Thirkell. Spectator. 29 June 1934. 152: 1011.
Growing Up, review of, by Angela Thirkell. Kirkus Review. 1 Feb. 1944: 12: 46.
Hay, Sandra H. Review of The Headmistress. Saturday Review Literature. 17 Feb. 1945: 28.
The Headmistress, review of, by Angela Thirkell. The Times (London) Literary Supplement. 23 Dec 1944: 617.
The Headmistress, review of, by Angela Thirkell. Christian Science Monitor. 5 Feb. 1945: 14.
Humble, Nicola. The Feminine Middlebrow Novel 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, Bohemianism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Inchfawn, Fay. Salute to the Village. London: Lutterworth Press, 1944.
Jacobucci, Amalia Angeloni. “Angela Thirkell Book Summaries.” http://www.angelathirkell.org/atbrief.htm. 11/12/2004.
Jenkin, Elizabeth. Review of The Duke’s Daughter, by Angela Thirkell. Manchester Guardian. 28 Sept. 1951: 4.
Jeude, Edith. Angela Thirkell and Charles Dickens: An Overview of Angela Thirkell‘s Use of Quotations from and References to Charles Dickens in Her Barsetshire Novels. Angela Thirkell Society, North American Branch. St. Louis, Missouri (undated).
Jutland Cottage, review of, by Angela Thirkell. The Times (London) Literary Supplement. 11 Sept. 1953: 577.
Knewstub, Robina. “Happy Marriages.” Journal of the Angela Thirkell Society. No. 16. 1996: 7—8.
Kynaston, David. Austerity Britain, 1945-1951. London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008.
Langstaff, Eleanor. “Angela Margaret Thirkell,” in An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. ed by Paul Schlueter and Jane Schlueter. Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing, 1988: 445-46.
Lee, Hermione. “Good Show: Why Do So Many Readers Seek Refuge in Angela Thirkell’s Little England?” The New Yorker. 7 Oct. 1996: 90—95.
Lerman, Leo. Review of Marling Hall, by Angela Thirkell. Saturday Review of Literature. 31 Oct. 1942. 25: 16.
Levin, Jill. The “Land of Lost Content”:Sex, Art, and Class in the Novels of Angela Thirkell, 1933-1960. Thesis. Washington University, 1986.
Lindley, Frances. Review of What Did it Mean? by Angela Thirkell. New York Herald Tribune. 31 Oct. 1934: 14.
Love Among the Ruins, review of, by Angela Thirkell. The Times (London) Literary Supplement. 2 Oct. 1948: 553.
Macdonald, Kate. “Angela Thirkell and John Buchan.” Webpage copyright @ The John Buchan Society 2004. http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk/thirkell.htm. 12/23/04.
Mallet, Isabelle. Review of The Headmistress, by Angela Thirkell. The New York Times. 14 Jan. 1945: 5.
Marling Hall, review of, by Angela Thirkell. The Times (London) Literary Supplement. 12 Sept. 1942: 449.
Mather, Rachel R. The Heirs of Jane Austen: Twentieth Century Writers and the Comedy of Manners. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.
Mackay, Robert. The Test of War: Inside Britain 1939-1945. New York: Routledge, 1999.
McFarlan, D. M. Delicious Prose: A Study of the Barsetshire Novels of Angela Thirkell (self-published) 1986, rpt. 1997.
McGinley, Phyllis. Review of The Old Bank House by Angela Thirkell. New York Times. 7 Aug. 1949: 4.
Miss Bunting, review of, by Angela Thirkell. The Times (London) Literary Supplement. 22 Dec. 1945: 605.
Moreton, Jennifer. “The Practised Ease of the Universal Woman.” Journal of the Angela Thirkell Society. 1992. 12: 22-24.
Morley. Blythe. Review of The Old Bank House, by Angela Thirkell. New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review. 7 Aug. 1949: 5. N
esbitt, Jennifer Poulos. Narrative Settlements: Geographies of British Women’s Fiction Between the Wars. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Northbridge Rectory, review of, by Angela Thirkell. The New Yorker. 10 Jan. 1942. 17: 59.
“A Novelist of the English Scene.” Obituary in The Times (London) 30 January 1961: 12. Rpt. in Journal of the Angela Thirkell Society. 1981. 1: 6—7.
“The Novels of Angela Thirkell” Book and Magazine Collector. No. 32, pp. 24-31. November 1986.
The Old Bank House, review of, by Angela Thirkell. Kirkus Review. 1 July 1948. 17: 331.
The Old Bank House, review of, by Angela Thirkell. The New Yorker. 20 Aug. 1949. 26: 66.
Pate, Johnny. Dictionary of Angela Thirkell’s Barsetshire Novels. Kerney, NE: Angela Thirkell Society, 2000.
Peel, Doris. Review of The Old Bank House, by Angela Thirkell. Christian Science Monitor. 25 Aug. 1949: 11.
Perkins,V. C. Review of Before Lunch, by Angela Thirkell. Commonweal. 14 June 1940. 32: 172.
Playfair, Joyce. A House in the Country. London: Persephone Books, 2003 [orig. 1944].
Prescott. OrviIIe. Review of The headmistress, by Angela Thirkell. New York Times Vl 22 Jan. 1945. 15: 2.
Private Enterprise, review of, by Angela Thirkell. The Times (London) Literary Supplement. 22 Nov. 1947: 601.
Purves, Libby. “Introduction” to The Brandons. London: Hogarth Press, 1988. Rpt. in Journal of the Angela Thirkell Society. No. 16, 1996: 34-36.
Redman, B. R. Review of Private Enterprise, by Angela Thirkell. Saturday Review of Literature. 7 Feb. 1948. 31: 10.
Redman, Elizabeth. “Growing Older.” Bulletin of the Angela Thirkell Society North American Branch. Summer 1997. 37: 8- 10.
Riggs, Dorothy. “Christmas in Barsetshire.” Bulletin of the Angela Thirkell Society. December 1992. 21: 5-12.
SeIf, Jane E. “Foreigners in Barsetshire.” Jn Journal of the Angela Thirkell Society. 1996. 16: 22—27.
Sherman, Beatrice. Review of Private Enterprise, by Angela Thirkell. New York Times. 25 Jan. 1948: 10.
Snowden, Cynthia. Going to Barsetshire. Kearney, Nebraska: Morris Publishing, 2000.
Southron, J. S. Review of Cheerfulness Breaks In, by Angela Thirkell. New York Times. 2 March 1941: 7.
Stone, Carol C. “Angela Thirkell and the ‘University Woman.’ ” Journal of the Angela ThirkeIl Society. 1997. 17: 9—13.
Strickland, Margo. Angela Thirkell, Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Kearney, Nebraska: Angela Thirkell Society of North America and Morris Publishing, 1996 (orig. 1977).
Strong, L.A.G. Review of Happy Return, by Angela Thirkell. Spectator 22 Aug. 1952. 189: 250.
Summer Half, review of, by Angela Thirkell. Catholic World. Sept. 1938. 147:762.
Taylor, N. E. Review of Never Too Late, by Angela Thirkell. Christian Science Monitor. 20 Sept. 1956: 11.
Thirkell, Angela. “The Advance of Science” quoted in The Journal of the Angela Thirkell Society. No. 11: 8.
Thirkell, Lance. Baby, Mother, and Grandmother. Privately published, 1982. Listed at http://www.angelathirkell.org/atbooks.htm. 12/20/ 2004.
Thirkell, Lance. Melbourne and London: A Childhood Memoir. London: Angela Thirkell Society, 2000.T
Oynbee, Philip. Review of Marling Hall, by Angela Thirkell. New Statesman & Nation. 31 0ct. 1942. 24: 293.
Walbridge, E. F. Review of Close Quarters, by Angela Thirkell. Library Journal. 1 Sept. 1958. 83:2323.
WaIbridge, E. F. Review of Enter Sir Robert, by Angela Thirkell. Library Journal. 15 Oct. 1955. 80: 2238.
WaIbridge, E. F. Review of Jutland Cottage, by Angela Thirkell. Library Journal. 15 Sept. 1953. 78: 1532.
Walcott, John. Review of The Brandons, by Angela Thirkell. Atlantic. August 1939: 2.
Wright, Cuthbert. Review of Marling Hall, by Angela Thirkell Commonweal. 23 Oct. 1942. 37: 19.

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