WHAT PEOPLE IN BARSETSHIRE ARE READING …….

Angela Thirkell readers delight in the Barsetshire books, but what are people in Barsetshire reading? Thanks to Caroline Evans and Beth Thoenen. (C & G = Carroll & Graf, MB = Moyer Bell)

AT Book	Author	Work	Comments	Ch.	Ed.	Pg.
Cheerfulness Breaks In	?	My Burning Flesh	Translated from the Mixo-Lydian by a young woman on staff of Daily Dustbin.	14	C&G	266
Happy Returns	?	Babylon Bruised and Mount Moriah Mended	Imaginary? Its “gifted authors” don’t like Children’s Corners.	11	MB	251
High Rising	?	The Noseless Horror	Laura reads it in bed	XV	C&G	250
Private Enterprise	?	Without my Bones, All Corpses Calling, and an American one, Meet Mr. Murder	Chaplain at Southbridge likes these thrillers	9	MB	300-301
Private Enterprise	?	“others too numerous to catalog, especially as we have not yet invented them”	At the book binding expo	7	MB	199
The Headmistress	?	A Good Man’s Love	Dorothy got it from Miss Humble at the libery.	13	MB	330
Jutland Cottage	Admiral Mahan	Influence of Sea-Power on History (maybe this is real?)	Admiral Phelps lends it to Captain Gresham, who had already read it.	6	MB	152-153
The Duke’s Daughter	Archdeacon	Short Survey of the Religious and Lay Aspects of Glebe Land	Mr. Grantly should be reviewing this, but is worrying about Tom	1	MB	20
County Chronicle	Bohun	Poem: To his Mistress on Seeing Sundrie Woorme-castes		10	MB	236
Jutland Cottage	Canon Fewling	Article on Church Times on St. Paul’s qualifications for the Royal Navy if he had lived today	This was his highest ambition, and he took great pleasure in giving offprints to friends.	4	MB	94-95
The Duke’s Daughter	Dean Crawley	A Foreigner in Finland	Mr. Grantly should be reviewing this, but is worrying about Tom	1	MB	20
The Duke’s Daughter	Dickens	Bleak House, which is said Hroj Czandik in Mixo-Lydian	Gradka is herself translatink.	8	MB	202
The Headmistress	Doctor Professor Ronnquest	A little book on his own Frederika Bremer’s visits to England and America	Wants Oxbridge Press to publish it.	13	MB	343-344
Cheerfulness Breaks In	Esme Bellenden	Men of Harlech	Likely to beat out Hampton for the next Banned Book of the Month	5	C&G	78
Private Enterprise	F. E. Arbuthnot	Delightful articles for Country Life with illustrations		11	MB	367
Private Enterprise	F. E. Arbuthnot	Coot and Hern		7	MB	200
Private Enterprise	George Knox	A biography of Lord Stanhope		7	MB	204
Private Enterprise	George Knox	Biographical works	At the book binding expo	7	MB	198
The Duke’s Daughter	George Knox	Biographies		15	MB	343
Private Enterprise	Hilary Grant	Book on the French romantic poet Jehan le Capet alia Eugene Duval	At the book binding expo	7	MB	199
The Brandons	Hilary Grant	Novel on le Capet’s sex life	Dedicated to Delia in return for her carving his name on a marrow.	14	C&G, large	354
Peace Breaks Out	Lady Emily’s mother	A Step Too Far	Shocked Mr. Gladstone	7	MB	221
Pomfret Towers	Lady Pomfet’s mother-in-law	A Step Too Far	Shocked Mr. Gladstone	V	C&G	101
Cheerfulness Breaks In	Lilian Tuckwell	The Truth about Byron; The Truth about Shelley, Keats, The Brownings, and many other popular works.	The Vicar’s wife is reading the one about Byron.	9	C&G	171
Marling Hall	Lionel Harvest	Cast Me Abroad	Mr. Harvey prefers this scathing exposure to Lord Pomfret’s work.	4	C&G	88
Jutland Cottage	Lisa Bedale	“some excellent thrillers”	Aconite at Night and what else?	3	MB	68
The Duke’s Daughter	Lord Lufton	Article on Cows in Poetry	Rejected by the Spectator	9	MB	213
Marling Hall	Lord Pomfret	A Landowner in Five Reigns		4	C&G	88
Private Enterprise	Lord Pomfret	A Landowner in Five Reigns	At the book binding expo	7	MB	198
Private Enterprise	Lord Pomfret’s mother	A Step Too Far	At the book binding expo. Had shocked Mr. Gladstone	7	MB	198
Northbridge Rectory	Merriman	Cultural Influence of the Court of King Rene	Ever since Mr. Downing reviewed this, Merriman has had his knife into him.	V	C&G	89
Jutland Cottage	Miss Hampton	Temptation at St. Anthony’s		10	MB	281
Jutland Cottage	Miss Hampton	A Gentle Girl and Boy, Chariots of Desire	Chariots is plural here.	10	MB	285
Jutland Cottage	Miss Hampton	Temptation at St. Anthony’s		10	MB	286
Jutland Cottage	Miss Hampton	Working on My Daughter is My Son, on a problem of modern life	Bent: “It will be strong meat. Can England take it?”	10	MB	286
Miss Bunting	Miss Hampton	Temptation at St. Anthony’s		12	MB	286
Miss Bunting	Miss Hampton	Chariot of Desire	“Chariot” is singular here.	12	MB	286
Private Enterprise	Miss Hampton	Powerful novels most of which had been banned in Manchester and the Vatican City	At the book binding expo	7	MB	199
Before Lunch	Miss Starter’s Grandfather	Essays in Anglican Agnosticism	Her father asked “Without the Church of England where would we agnostics stand?”	IX	C&G	225
Private Enterprise	Mr. Barton	Minor Domestic Architecture of East Barsetshire	At the book binding expo	7	MB	199
The Headmistress	Mr. Carton	Fluvius Minucius, A Critical Study	Dedicated in elegant Latin to Miss Sparling’s grandfather.	13	MB	344
Northbridge Rectory	Mr. Downing	Anthology of Provencal Lyrics	Miss Pemberton asked Mr. Villars to do a little notice on this for the Journal of the English Word-Lovers’ Association.	V	C&G	89
Northbridge Rectory	Mr. Downing	“books on Provencal literature”	These seem to be apart from the dictionary	VIII	C&G	155
Northbridge Rectory	Mr. Downing	Working on article for the Journal of Provencal Studies		XIII	C&G	262
Private Enterprise	Mr. Downing	Scholarly edition of an early twelfth-century Tenso by Peire de Baruelh	At the book binding expo	7	MB	198
Before Lunch	Mr. Middleton	Accumulated material for an article…	…for the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects	I	C&G	8
The Old Bank House	Mr. Tebben	?	Dr. Crawley knew and respected him as an authority on the literature of Scandinavia and (snakeless!) Iceland.	9	MB	223
Private Enterprise	Mrs. Barton	Renaissance novels	At the book binding expo	7	MB	199
Jutland Cottage	Mrs. Rivers	Lad’s Love	Name said to be taken from a flower, giving 2 characters the giggles.	3	MB	68
Private Enterprise	Mrs. Rivers	Autumn Passion Flower, Esthonian Equinox	The first one was chosen by the Middle-Aged Women’s Book Guild	7	MB	204-205
Private Enterprise	Mrs. Rivers	“’That heap by itself is Mrs. Rivers’ novels,’ said Miss Arbuthnot.” at the book binding expo.)	She isnt’ exactly Barshetshire, but was included because her husband is a cousin of Lord Pomfret’s.	7	MB	199
Northbridge Rectory	Numa Garagou/ Guibert le Biau	Andalhou	Dull and prolix work. Mr. Downing wants Mr. Villars’opinion of a footnote in it.	VIII	C&G	162
The Duke’s Daughter	Oliver	“some notes on the Caroline poet Bohun”	He was having them published privately by the Barchester Chronicle	9	MB	213
Happy Returns	Philip Winter	A book on Horace	Swan saw the book on a shelf.	5	MB	108
Private Enterprise	Philip Winter	Little book on Horace published by Oxbridge University Press	At the book binding expo	7	MB	199
Love Among the Ruins