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Gerald Duckworth, publishers, London - ISBN:0715611240, 1977. hardcover, 5¾" x 8¾", with dust jacket. Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. Slight lean to spine. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket. Angela Thirkell (b. 1890) was the grand-daughter of Sir Edward Burne-Jones. She was brought up in London, the centre of an adoring circle of distinguished artists and writers. After her unsuccessful marriage to an Australian named Thirkell, she returned to London feeling an urgency to become a novelist. For the remaining thirty years of her life she wrote thirty novels and became the 'grande dame sans merci' of the London literary world. This is the first biography of Angela Thirkell.