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Availability:In StockContributor:Angela ThirkellSeries:VMCTheme:Topical/FamilyPublish date:1/31/2017Pages:288
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Virago Press (UK)ISBN-13:9780349007564ISBN-10:034900756XUPC:9780349007564Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Family Life, HumorousSize:7.75 x 5.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.295Product ID:SC2RXQ961V
Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of retirement by Sir Robert and Lady Fielding to tutor their daughter Anne, delicate, sixteen years old, and totally lacking in confidence.
When Anne makes friends with Heather Adams, the gauche daughter of a nouveau riche entrepreneur, her mother is appalled. Miss Bunting, however, shows an instinctive understanding of the younger generation - perhaps, having lost so many of her former pupils to the war, she is more sympathetic to their needs. She may be a part of the old social order, where everyone knows their place, but is wise enough to realise that the war has turned everything on its head and nothing will ever be the same again - even in rural Barsetshire.First published in 1945, Miss Bunting is a charming social comedy of village life during the Second World War.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Virago Press (UK)ISBN-13:9780349007564ISBN-10:034900756XUPC:9780349007564Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Family Life, HumorousSize:7.75 x 5.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.295Product ID:SC2RXQ961V
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.
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