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Angela Thirkell by John Collier, 1914
Angela Thirkell (International) assertion Angela Thirkell i(A12107 works by) (birth name: Angela Margaret Mackail) (a.k.a. Angela McInnes; Angela Margaret Thirkell; Mrs George Thirkell)
Also writes as: Leslie Parker
Born: Established: 30 Jan 1890 Kensington, London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 29 Jan 1961 Surrey,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

English writer Angela Thirkell lived in Australia from 1920-1929. On returning to England she became a successful novelist, but wrote only one novel with an Australian association. Her sons Colin MacInnes and Graham McInnes were also writers, as was her brother, Denis Mackail. Her maternal grandfather was the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones and her maternal grandmother was Georgiana [Macdonald] Burne-Jones.

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Notes

  • See also the full Australian Dictionary of Biography Online entry for Angela Margaret Thirkell, (1890-1961).
  • Thirkell contributed the article 'Food and Art' to the June 1928 issue of The Home; her illustrated, lighthearted, prose discuss the 'aesthetic and gastric appeals' of the Tate Gallery in London and suggest a potential 'mural decoration' for the 'refreshment room in the Melbourne Art Gallery'.
  • The September 1929 issue of The Home contains 'Euterpe in Melbourne', another piece of Thirkell prose written in a similar lighthearted style. Describing first the rehearsal, and then the performance, she reports the experience of attending a concert of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Performed under the conductorship of Fritz Hart and held in the Melbourne Town Hall, the concert drew remarkable crowds; Thirkell observes, that this 'packed mass of humanity' was evidence of the 'alarming passion of the Melbourne public for orchestral music'.
  • The April 1930 issue of The Home contains a brief biographical note accompanied by a full-page portrait of Mrs George Thirkell (aka Angela Thirkell).
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