Three Houses
As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week'There is always in our minds the hope that we may find again those golden unhastening days and wake up and dream'In this beautifully nostalgic memoir, eminent author Angela Thirkell recalls in rich detail the three houses in which she grew up. Focusing first on 'The Grange', where her grandfather, the celebrated painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones, set the cultivated tone, Thirkell also reminisces about her parents' home in Kensington Square and the Burne-Jones' seaside retreat, where Angela's cousin, Rudyard Kipling, lived across the green.A tale of forbidden explorations, Punch and Judy shows, and adven…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7490-1234-2
- EAN: 9780749012342
- Produktnummer: 14482900
- Verlag: Allison & Busby
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'282 KB
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Angela Thirkell (1890-1961), granddaughter of the pre-Raphaelite painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones, cousin of Rudyard Kipling and mother to novelist Colin MacInnes, was born in Kensington Square, London. A prolific author, she wrote over thirty novels in her lifetime, mostly set in Barsetshire. Three Houses, a memoir of her childhood, was her first book and became an immediate success on its publication in 1931.
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