I hadn’t intended returning to Anthony Trollope’s fifth Barsetshire novel, The Small House at Allington, after my post about it last time. But I felt I needed to indicate some of its strengths I didn’t have space for there. Trollope … Continue reading
[Warning: for those who have yet to read this novel I dwell on what might be considered spoilers here] This fifth novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, published 1862-64, is different from its predecessors. Anthony Trollope refrains from giving his … Continue reading
Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her? Oxford World’s Classics, 1991. First published 1864-65 Here I am, back again after another long silence. Work again kept me away from reading and posting. The work project is now finished, and there’s a … Continue reading
Angela Thirkell, Wild Strawberries. Virago Modern Classics, 2012. 19341 Europe was at a turning point in 1934, when this light romantic comedy was published. This was the year Hitler became Führer of Germany, having been made Chancellor the previous year. … Continue reading
Angela Thirkell, High Rising. VMC 2013; first published 1933 Angela Thirkell was quite someone: a granddaughter of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Burne-Jones and goddaughter of JM Barrie, her father was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and she was related to Kipling … Continue reading
Exactly one year after my long road trip with TD jr and two cats from Berlin to his family’s new home at Sant Cugat, near Barcelona, Mrs TD and I revisited the new house to which they moved a few … Continue reading