THE ANGELA THIRKELL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA

Bibliography of Works by Angela Thirkell

 

We are indebted to Mr. D. J. Gilson and The Journal of The Angela Thirkell Society for the Angela Thirkell bibliography.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • “Up the Airy Mountain,” The News Chronicle, 29 October – 2 November 1934. A long short story published in five consecutive issues.
  • “The First Nowell,” Illustrated London News, Christmas Number (1934): 33-36.
  • “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 12, 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, 18 July 1950. (Three paragraphs). IS THERE A VERSION OF HATEFUL BOYS?
  • “Henry Kingsley,” The St. John and Red Cross Hospital Library Broadsheet 5, No. 4, August 1950.
  • “Henry Kingsley, 1830-1876,” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 5, no. 3 (March 1951): 175-187.
  • “Three Reasons Why I Like Australia,” South Australian Homes and Gardens, December 1950.
  • “The Works of Henry Kingsley,” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 5, no. 4 (March 1951): 273-293.
  • “Morning, Afternoon, and Night,” Homes and Gardens, No. 10, 11, 12, and 13, April-July, 1951. Short novel published in four consecutive issues.
  • “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,” in Shining Tree and Other Christmas Stories, by Hildegarde Hawthorne and others, Knopf, 1940.
  • “Nice Day in Town,” in London Calling, edited by Storm Jameson, Harper, 1942.
  • “Evacuees in Barsetshire,” from Cheerfulness Breaks In, in A Treasury of British Humor, edited by Morris Bishop, Coward-McCann, 1942.
REVIEWS
  • Review of The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy, by William Gaunt. Book of the Month, May 1942.
  • “A Score of Ghosts,” The Second Ghost Book, by Lady Cynthia Asquith. Truth, 1952.
  • 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, Summer 1955.
INTRODUCTIONS
  • Persuasion, by Jane Austen, Williams & Norgate, 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.
  • “The Private View,” Cornhill Magazine, November 1934.