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1890–1961 England

Angela Margaret Thirkell (née Mackail, 30 January 1890 – 29 January 1961) was an English novelist. She also wrote a brief memoir, Three Houses (1931), of her childhood.

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The organ pealed forth, though never except in fiction does it do this, rather blaring and bursting, or in more refined cases quavering. In every heart began to spring that exquisite hope, seldom if ever realised, that the bride will have had a fit, or eloped with someone else.

Cheerfulness Breaks In (1940)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Angela Thirkell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.