Books Being Read in Barsetshire, The Angela Thirkell Society of North America

WHAT PEOPLE IN BARSETSHIRE ARE READING…

When people in Barsetshire aren’t going to the movies at the Odeon, they are reading books for entertainment, or writing them for their highly stylized publishers, such as Adrian Coates. Angela Thirkell readers delight in the Barsetshire books, but what are people in Barsetshire reading? Thanks to Caroline Evans and Beth Thoenen.

AT Book	Author	Work	Comments
Before Lunch	Miss Starter’s Grandfather	Essays in Anglican Agnosticism	Her father asked “Without the Church of England where would we agnostics stand?”
Before Lunch	Mr. Middleton	Accumulated material for an article…	…for the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Cheerfulness Breaks In	?	My Burning Flesh	Translated from the Mixo-Lydian by a young woman on staff of Daily Dustbin.
Cheerfulness Breaks In	Esme Bellenden	Men of Harlech	Likely to beat out Hampton for the next Banned Book of the Month.
Cheerfulness Breaks In	Lilian Tuckwell	The Truth about Byron; The Truth about Shelley, Keats, The Brownings, and many other popular works.	The Vicar’s wife is reading the one about Byron.
Cheerfulness Breaks In	Spurge-Mackworth	A Concept of Neo-Phallic Thought.	Mrs. Bissell commends the chapter on the Libido-Involuntary to Miss Bent.
County Chronicle	Bohun	Poem: To his Mistress on Seeing Sundrie Woorme-castes.
Happy Returns	?	Babylon Bruised and Mount Moriah Mended.	Imaginary? Its “gifted authors” don’t like Children’s Corners.
Happy Returns	Philip Winter	A book on Horace.	Swan saw the book on a shelf.
High Rising	?	The Noseless Horror.	Laura reads it in bed.
Jutland Cottage	Admiral Mahan	Influence of Sea-Power on History (maybe this is real?).	Admiral Phelps lends it to Captain Gresham, who had already read it.
Jutland Cottage	Canon Fewling	Article on Church Times on St. Paul’s qualifications for the Royal Navy if he had lived today.	This was his highest ambition, and he took great pleasure in giving offprints to friends.
Jutland Cottage	Lisa Bedale	“some excellent thrillers.”	Aconite at Night and what else?
Jutland Cottage	Miss Hampton	Temptation at St. Anthony’s.
Jutland Cottage	Miss Hampton	A Gentle Girl and Boy, Chariots of Desire.	Chariots is plural here.
Jutland Cottage	Miss Hampton	Temptation at St. Anthony’s.
Jutland Cottage	Miss Hampton	Working on My Daughter is My Son, on a problem of modern life.	Bent: “It will be strong meat. Can England take it?”
Jutland Cottage	Mrs. Rivers	Lad’s Love.	Name said to be taken from a flower, giving two characters the giggles.
Love Among the Ruins	Robert Graham	He’s going to be a poet, according to Clarissa.	His father wants him to go into the Guards.
Marling Hall	Lionel Harvest	Cast Me Abroad.	Mr. Harvey prefers this scathing exposure to Lord Pomfret’s work.
Marling Hall	Lord Pomfret	A Landowner in Five Reigns.
Miss Bunting	Miss Hampton	Temptation at St. Anthony’s.
Miss Bunting	Miss Hampton	Chariot of Desire.	“Chariot” is singular here.
Northbridge Rectory	Merriman	Cultural Influence of the Court of King Rene.	Ever since Mr. Downing reviewed this, Merriman has had his knife into him.
Northbridge Rectory	Mr. Downing	Anthology of Provencal Lyrics.	Miss Pemberton asked Mr. Villars to do a little notice on this for the Journal of the English Word-Lovers’ Association.
Northbridge Rectory	Mr. Downing	“books on Provencal literature.”	These seem to be apart from the dictionary.
Northbridge Rectory	Mr. Downing	Working on article for the Journal of Provencal Studies.
Northbridge Rectory	Numa Garagou/Guibert le Biau	Andalhou.	Dull and prolix work. Mr. Downing wants Mr. Villars’opinion of a footnote in it.
Peace Breaks Out	Lady Emily’s mother	A Step Too Far.	Shocked Mr. Gladstone
Pomfret Towers	Lady Pomfet’s mother-in-law	A Step Too Far.	Shocked Mr. Gladstone.
Pomfret Towers	Sasha Menski	Worm that Eatest the Flesh	Julian Rivers likes the jacket that Bolikoff designed for this book.
Private Enterprise	?	Without my Bones, All Corpses Calling, and an American one, Meet Mr. Murder.	Chaplain at Southbridge likes these thrillers.
Private Enterprise	?	“others too numerous to catalog, especially as we have not yet invented them.”	At the book binding expo.
Private Enterprise	F. E. Arbuthnot	Delightful articles for Country Life with illustrations.
Private Enterprise	F. E. Arbuthnot	Coot and Hern.
Private Enterprise	George Knox	A biography of Lord Stanhope.
Private Enterprise	George Knox	Biographical works.	At the book binding expo.
Private Enterprise	Hilary Grant	Book on the French romantic poet Jehan le Capet alia Eugene Duval.	At the book binding expo.
Private Enterprise	Lord Pomfret	A Landowner in Five Reigns.	At the book binding expo.
Private Enterprise	Lord Pomfret’s mother	A Step Too Far.	At the book binding expo. Had shocked Mr. Gladstone.
Private Enterprise	Miss Hampton	Powerful novels most of which had been banned in Manchester and the Vatican City.	At the book binding expo.
Private Enterprise	Mr. Barton	Minor Domestic Architecture of East Barsetshire	At the book binding expo.
Private Enterprise	Mr. Downing	Scholarly edition of an early twelfth-century Tenso by Peire de Baruelh.	At the book binding expo.
Private Enterprise	Mrs. Barton	Renaissance novels.	At the book binding expo.
Private Enterprise	Mrs. Rivers	Autumn Passion Flower, Esthonian Equinox.	The first one was chosen by the Middle-Aged Women’s Book Guild.
Private Enterprise	Mrs. Rivers	“’That heap by itself is Mrs. Rivers’ novels,’ said Miss Arbuthnot.” (At the book binding expo.)	She isnt’ exactly Barshetshire but was included because her husband is a cousin of Lord Pomfret’s.
Private Enterprise	Philip Winter	Little book on Horace published by Oxbridge University Press.	At the book binding expo.
Private Enterprise	Sixth Earl of Pomfret	Translation of an ode of Ronsard privately printed.	At the book binding expo.
The Brandons	Hilary Grant	Novel on le Capet’s sex life.	Dedicated to Delia in return for her carving his name on a marrow.
The Duke’s Daughter	Archdeacon	Short Survey of the Religious and Lay Aspects of Glebe Land.	Mr. Grantly should be reviewing this, but is worrying about Tom.
The Duke’s Daughter	Dean Crawley	A Foreigner in Finland.	Mr. Grantly should be reviewing this but is worrying about Tom.
The Duke’s Daughter	Dickens	Bleak House, which is said Hroj Czandik in Mixo-Lydian.	Gradka is herself “translatink.”
The Duke’s Daughter	George Knox	Biographies
The Duke’s Daughter	Lord Lufton	Article on Cows in Poetry.	Rejected by the Spectator.
The Duke’s Daughter	Oliver	“some notes on the Caroline poet Bohun.”	He was having them published privately by the Barchester Chronicle.
The Duke’s Daughter	Sister Propria Persona	Selectivity in the Church Today.	Mr. Grantly should be reviewing this but is worrying about Tom.
The Headmistress	?	A Good Man’s Love.	Dorothy got it from Miss Humble at the library.
The Headmistress	Doctor Professor Ronnquest	A little book on his own Frederika Bremer’s visits to England and America.	Wants Oxbridge Press to publish it.
The Headmistress	Mr. Carton	Fluvius Minucius, A Critical Study.	Dedicated in elegant Latin to Miss Sparling’s grandfather.
The Old Bank House	Mr. Tebben	?	Dr. Crawley knew and respected him as an authority on the literature of Scandinavia and (snakeless!) Iceland.