Angela's brother, Denis Mackail, was also a prolific and successful novelist. Her grandmother was Georgiana Macdonald, one of a precocious family which included among others, Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, and Rudyard Kipling. Her grandfather was Sir Edward Burne-Jones the pre-Raphaelite painter and partner in the design firm of Morris and Company for whom he designed many stained glass windows - seven of which are in St Margaret's Church in Rottingdean, West Sussex. As usual we have the 'young man with crush on older woman', one match completed, and others set up for the future.Īngela Margaret Mackail was born on Januat 27 Young Street, Kensington Square, London. Even the small children, James, Emmy, and Clarissa are fully defined and serve to reveal the character of the adults as they interact with them. The French tenants and Mr Holt, the consummate social leech, are skilfully and humorously dealt with as is the household struggle for control between Housekeeper and Nannie.
Their daughter Agnes, a matriarch-in-waiting, has already produced three children despite a husband who seems to be perennially abroad on some unspecified activity. Mr Leslie has been known to take off on a cruise to the 'Northern capitals of Europe' when it all becomes too much for him. There is no event so settled that Lady Emily cannot throw it into chaos at the last moment.
Lady Emily reigns behind a self-generated thicket of confusion and turmoil. Action in Thirkells second Barsetshire novel centres around the extended family of the Leslies of Rushwater House.
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