ANGELA THIRKELL SOCIETY QUESTIONNAIRE - 2004

 

 

 

Contributor

 

 

Favorite Author

 

 

 

 

Favorite Book Title /Author

 

 

 

 

Favorite Mystery, and/or Writer

 

 

Favorite  non-fiction… associated w/ life & times of Angela Thirkell

 

 

 

 

 

 

AA

Elizabeth Gaskell

Wives & Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell

Gallowglass, Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell)

The Saga of the Mitford Sisters, Mary S. Lovell

Nancy Mitford

Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns

Moonstone, Wilkie Collins

A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Wolf

 

 

 

 

 

JB

Dornford Yates (Berry Series)

Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford

The Franchise Affair, Josephine Tey

As Berry and I Were Saying, Dornford Yates

D.E. Stevenson (Mrs. Tim Series)

Greengage Summer, Rumer Godden

The Singing Sands, Josephine Tey

 

 

 

 

 

 

DB

Anita Brookner

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Wolf

P.D. James

 

Virginia Wolf

The Seven Sisters, Margaret Drabble

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JB

P. G. Wodehouse

Diary of a Provincial Lady, E.M. Delafield

Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan

Down The Garden Path, Beverly Nichols

Dora Saint  (Miss Read)

Minack Chronicles, Derek Tangye

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CB

Georgette Heyer

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Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers

 

Mary Wesley

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JB

Jane Austen

Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

Tony Hillerman

Thomas Merton’s  Journals, Thomas Merton

E.F. Benson

Persuasion, Jane Austen

Agatha Christie

Biography of Jenny, Lady Churchill

 

 

 

 

 

SB

Penelope Lively

Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively

Agatha Raisin Mysteries, M.C. Beaton

Life with Topsy, Denis Mackail

Barbara Pym

Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LB

Dora Saint (Miss Read)

The Road to Fez, Ruth Knafo Setton

Jill Ker Conway

Small Talk at Wreyland, Cecil Torr

George Eliot

Sulha, Malka Marom

Mrs. Gaskel 

After the War Was Over, Michael Foreman

 

 

 

 

 

SB

Dora Saint (Miss Read)

The Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett

Amelia Peabody Series, Elizabeth Peters

English Country Life in the Barsetshire Novels by Angela Thirkell, Laura Roberts Collins

Dorothy Dunnett

Janet Sandison books, Jane Duncan

Jane Austen Mysteries, Stephanie Barron

Pre-Raphaelites at Home, Pamela Todd

 

 

 

 

 

RB

J. B. Priestly

The Good Companions, J.B. Priestly

The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers

 

Edith Wharton

The Custom of the Country, Edith Wharton

Josephine Tey, (any one of her mysteries)

 

 

 

 

 

 

JB

Barbara Pym

Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens

Donna Leon (Venice)

England’s Finest Hour, Vera Brittain

Ann Tyler

Some Tame Gazelle,  Barbara Pym

Sue Henry (Alaska)

Three Houses, Angela Thirkell

 

 

 

 

 

LB

Jane Austen

The Phoenix and the Carpet, Edith Nesbit

Sherlock Holmes (all), Arthur Conan Doyle

 

Fanny Burney

Diary of a Nobody, George Grossmith

The Italian, Ann Radcliffe

 

Edith Nesbit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AB

Arthur Ransome

Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers

Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers

Period Piece, Gwen Raverat

Dorothy L. Sayers

Memoirs of a Highland Lady, Elizabeth Grant

Josephine Tey

Jock of the Bushveld, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick

Trollope  

 

Ngaio Marsh

 

 

 

 

 

 

SB

Dorothy Sayers

Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

Albert Campion series, Margery Allingham

84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Haff

Margery Allingham

Mapp & Lucia, E.F. Benson

Out of The Blackout, Robert Barnard

Something Wholesale: My Life in the Rag Trade, Eric Newby

Ngaio Marsh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SB

Rudyard Kipling

Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, S.M. Kamakau

Josephine Tey

Ottoman Empire, Lord Kinross

Edward Gibbon, (Rise & Fall of the R.E.)

Leper Priest of Molokai, Richard Stewart

Agatha Christie

 

 

 

 

 

 

PC

Joanna Trollope

The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

Orchestrated Death, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (the Bill Slider series)

A Chelsea Concerto, Frances Faviell

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

 

 

Nella Last’s War, Nell Last

 

 

 

 

 

JC

D.E. Stevenson

Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

Lord Peter, Dorothy Sayers

I Leap Over The Wall, Monica Baldwin

Georgettte Heyer

Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling

Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters

Henrietta’s War: News From the Homefront 1934-1942,  Joyce Dennys

 

 

 

 

 

SC

Elizabeth Gaskell

High Tide at Noon, Elizabeth Ogilvie

Martha Grimes

 

E.F. Benson

The Country of the Pointed Firs and Others Stories,  Sarah Orne Jewett

Margery Allingham

 

Joanna Trollope

Pilgrim’s Inn, Elizabeth Goudge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LC

James Hilton

Random Harvest, James Hilton

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Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist, Margot Strickland

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers

Her letters to her mother about her baby 

 

 

 

 

 

JC

Margaret Drabble

 

P.D. James

 

Anita Brookner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NGC

Georgette Heyer

The Talisman Ring, Georgette Heyer

P.D. James

 

Neville Shute

Trustee from the Tool Room, Neville Shute

Helen MacInnes

 

 

 

 

 

 

DC

Dorothy Dunnett

To Kill A Mocking Bird, Harper Lee

Dorothy L. Sayers

 

Patrick O’Brian

 

Elizabeth George

 

 

 

 

 

 

CD

Katie Fford

No Holly for Miss Quinn, Miss Read

Bill Slider mysteries, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

 

Miss Read

Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey

Deborah Crombie

 

 

 

 

 

 

MC

Angela Thirkell,

(Other that AT, she does not have a favorite author…)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PC

Charles Dickens

 

 

 

Graham Greene

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AHC

D.E. Stevenson

(Miss Buncle Books)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WFD

P.G. Wodehouse

Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens

Katherine Hall Page

 

Stephen Leacock

Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome

John Coggin

 

 

 

 

 

 

HD

Jane Duncan

 

D.M. Greenwood – quite a few books

 

 

 

Margaret Maron

 

 

 

 

 

 

SZD

P.G. Wodehouse

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Dorothy L. Sayers

 

Rupert Brooke

Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers

Deborah Crombie

 

 

 

 

 

 

JD

Howard Spring

The Houses In Between, Howard Spring

P.D. James (any book)

 

Margaret Atwood

 

Ruth Rendell (any book)

 

 

 

 

 

 

JD

Barbara Pym

Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym

P.D. James

 

Mary Wesley

A Sensible Life, Mary Wesley

Au  

 

 

 

 

 

 

JE

E. F. Benson

I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith

Sarah Caudwell

 

Carol Shields (Stone Diaries, Swann, etc.)

Possession, A.S. Byatt

Bruce Alexander

 

Nancy Mitford

 

Edward Sklepowich  (Venice)

 

 

 

 

 

 

AE

Dora Saint (Miss Read)

Jilly Cooper  

Josephine Tey

 

Lee Smith

Miss Manners, Judith Martin

Elizabeth George

 

Barbara Pym

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SF

Neville Shute

Andersonville, McKinley Kantor

Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy  L. Sayers

 

Tom Robbins

Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

Mary Roberts Reinhart

 

 

 

 

 

 

GF

Barbara Pym

Cotillion, Georgette Heyer

Sarah Caudwell (all)

Daughters and Rebels, Jessica Mitford

Georgette Heyer

These Old Shades, Georgette Heyer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PF

Jane Austen

 

Agatha Christie

 

Cynthia Propper Seton

 

Dorothy L. Sayers

 

Alice Thomas Ellis

(Home Life Series)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EF

Barbara Pym

The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald

 

 

E.F. Benson

Passing On, Penelope Lively

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JG

 

 

Daughter of Time, Brat Farrar, & Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey

 

 

 

Place for Murder, Emma Lathen

 

 

 

Katherine Hall Page (all!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

GG

Jane Austen

Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

Murder Must Advertise, Dorothy L. Sayer

 

Rumer Godden

To The Lighthouse, Virginia Wolf

When in Greece, Emma Lathen

 

 

 

 

 

 

VG

Barbara Pym

Diary of a Provincial Lady, E.M. Delafield

Fashion in Shrouds, Margery Allingham

Period Piece, Gwen Raverat

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Love in a Cold Climate,  Nancy Mitford

Duplicate Death, Georgette Heyer

1939: The Last Season of Peace, Angela Lambert

 

 

 

 

 

SH

Jane Austen

Harry Potter (all 5!), J. K. Rowling

Brother Cadfael books, Ellis Peters

 

Trollope  

Lord of the Rings, J. R.R. Tolkien

Tony Hillerman

 

 

 

Elizabeth Peters

 

 

 

 

 

 

AH

Barbara Pym

The Forsythe Saga, John Galsworthy

Elizabeth George

 

E.M. Delafield

Howards End, E. M. Forrester

Martha Grimes

 

 

 

 

 

 

JH

P.G. Wodehouse

Prodigal Summer(et.al.), Barbara Kingsolver

Lindsay Davis (all Didius Falco books)

This England, National Geographic Society

Elizabeth Peters

One Pair of Hands, Monica Dickens

Mary Roberts Rinehart – any!

The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England, Antonia Fraser

Beverly Nichols

 

Margery Allingham

 

 

 

 

 

 

CH

Anthony Trollope

The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham

W. J. Burley

England’s Finest Hour, Vera Brittain

Jane Austen

Persuasion, Jane Austen

Martha Grimes

 

W. Somerset Maugham

Random Harvest, James Hilton

Agatha Christie

 

 

 

 

 

 

HH

E.M. Delafield

Diary of a Provincial Lady, E.M. Delafield

Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers

 

Barbara Pym

Brideshead Revised, Evelyn Waugh

Agatha Christie  (collected works)

 

D.E. Stevenson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PH

Dora Saint (Miss Read)

Winter Solstice, Rosamunde Pilcher

Ellis Peters

 

Maeve Binchey

The Flambards, K.M. Peyton

Josephine Tey

 

 

 

 

 

 

BH

Jan Karon

Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling

To The Hilt, Dick Francis

Come, Tell Me How You Live, Agatha Christie

Dora Saint (Miss Read)

 

Brother Cadfael’s Penance, Ellis Peters

 

 

 

 

 

 

SH

E.F. Benson

Mapp & Lucia, E.F. Benson

Ruth Rendell

 

Barbara Kingsolver

The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver

Margaret Yorke

 

 

 

 

 

 

HH

E.M. Delafield

Diary of a Provincial Lady, E.M. Delafield

Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers

 

Barbara Pym

Brideshead Revised, Evelyn Waugh

Agatha Christie’s collected works

 

D.E. Stevenson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BH

Flora Klickmann

The Flower Patch Among the Hills, Flora Klickmann

China Bayles books, Susan Wittig Albert

The House, Nan Fairbrother

Nan Fairbrother

 

A Clutch of Vultures, Robert Barnard

Inside Outsider: The Life & Times of Colin McInnes, Tony Gould

 

 

 

 

 

EH

Elizabeth Gaskell

Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell

Daniel Plainway or the Holiday Haunting of the Moosepath League, Van Reid

 

 

 

Lady Audley’s Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon

 

 

 

 

 

 

RH

Charles Dickens

Bleak House, Charles Dickens

Nine Tailors, Dorothy Sayers

 

Jane Austen

Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen

Alarm Cry, Phillip Huston

 

 

 

 

 

 

AAJ

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

P.D. James

Nicholas & Alexandra, Robert Massie

George Eliot

Mill On the Floss, George Eliot

Miss Marple, Agatha Christie

Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman

 

 

 

 

 

KJ

D.E. Stevenson

The Green Money, D.E. Stevenson

The Skeleton in the Closet, M.C. Beaton

 

E.F. Benson

The Dean’s Watch, Elizabeth Goudge

Aunt Dimity’s Death, Nancy Atherton

 

 

 

Dorothy L. Sayers

 

 

 

 

 

 

KJ

Norah Lofts

Apricot Sky, Ruby Ferguson

The Uninvited, Dorothy Macardle

 

Elizabeth Goudge

 

Midsomer Murders, Caroline Graham

 

Georgette Heyer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TJ

Barbara Pym

 

Anna’s Book, Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)

 

 

 

Hazel Holt

 

 

 

Kate Kingsbury

 

 

 

 

 

 

SLK

John Mortimer

 

Katherine Hall Page

 

Ngaio Marsh

 

Sarah Caudwell

 

Barbara Pym

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JWK

P.G. Wodehouse

A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell

Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers

Diaries, Lady Cynthia Asquin 

Anthony Powell

Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford

Brat Farrar, Josephine Tey

Clouds: The Biography of a Country House, Caroline Dakers

 

 

 

 

 

KK

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner

 

 

Anthony Powell

Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant, A. Powell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CKW

Angela Thirkell

Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather

Agatha Christie

 

Barbara Pym

 

Patricia Wentworth

 

Willa Cather

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CK

Jane Austen

Emma, Jane Austen

 

The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis

Anthony Trollope

 

 

The Everlasting Man, G.K. Chesterton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RL

Edith Wharton

The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

Josephine Tey

A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II,

Stanley Cloud & Lynne Olson

Charles Dickens

Enchanted April, Elizabeth Von Armin

Agatha Christie

 

 

 

Brother Cadfael series, Ellis Peters

 

 

 

 

 

 

BL

E.F. Benson

Lucia books, E.F. Benson

Dick Francis, all his books

 

Anthony Trollope

Saints & Strangers, George F. Williamson

James Herriott, all Creatures, Great & Small

 

 

 

 

 

 

KL

Betty MacDonald

The City Boy, Herman Wouk

Rex Stout, any book

 

S.J.Perelman

Seventeen, Booth Tarkington

The Curse of the Giant Hogweed, Charlotte

McLeod

 

 

 

 

 

 

HCL

Barbara Pym

 

 

 

E.F. Benson

 

 

 

Miss Read

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SL

Alice Thomas Ellis

Other People’s Children, Joanna Trollope

P.D. James (all her books)

Memoirs of the Second World War, Winston Churchill

Joanna Trollope

Home Life, Alice Thomas Ellis

Ruth Rendell (all her mysteries)

The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw

 

 

 

 

 

JL

Haruki Murakami

Angelique, Sergeanne Golon

The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

 

Winston Graham

Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake

Roman Blood, Steven Saylor

 

 

 

 

 

 

JL

A.S. Byatt

Possession, A.S. Byatt

Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers

 

Vita Sackville-West

By Love Possessed, James Cozzens

 

 

 

All Passion Spent, Vita Sackville-West

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EM

John Galsworthy

Bachelor Brothers Bed & Breakfast, Bill Richardson

Robert B. Parker (any)

 

Dodie Smith

Elzabeth Ogilive (any book)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BM

E.F.Benson (Lucia books only)

Miss Read, Dora Saint (any)

Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters (any)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PM

Jane Aiken Hodge

Marry in Haste, Jane Aiken Hodge

 

 

Roberta Gellis

Bond of Blood, Roberta Gellis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EM

E.F. Benson (Mapp & Lucia)

I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith

Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers

 

Raffaella Barker

Something Light, Margery Sharp (or any)

Mallory series, Carol O’Connell

 

 

 

The Old Silent, Martha Grimes

 

 

 

 

 

 

SM

Edith Wharton

 

Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine (any)

 

Penelope Lively

 

P.D. James

 

 

 

 

 

 

BM

Barbara Pym

Possession, A.S. Byatt

Martha Grimes (any mystery)

 

Elizabeth Jane Howard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NM

Barbara Pym

Possession, A.S. Byatt

Hazel Holt (all)

A London Family Between Wars, Molly Hughes

Elizabeth Bowen

The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch

P.D. James

 

 

 

 

 

 

JM

Barbara Pym

Onions in the Stew, Betty MacDonald

Sarah Kelling series, Charlotte MacLeod

 

Agatha Christie

I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith

Murder on a Mystery Tour, Marion Babson

 

Dorothy L. Sayers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JP

Agatha Christie

Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory, Ben Robertson

The Moving Finger, Agatha Christie

Going to Barsetshire, Cynthia Snowden

P.G. Wodehouse

Cordelia Underwood: or the Marvelous Beginnings of the Mooseparth League, Van Reid

The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers

Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist, Margot Strickland

Van Reid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SP

Angela Thirkell

Even the Hills is Lonely, Lililan Beckwith

 

 

 

One Pair of Hands, Monica Dickens

 

 

 

The Egg & I, Betty MacDonald

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MP

 

The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

Dorothy L.Sayers

 

 

 

Ngaio Marsh

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRP

George Eliot

Middlemarch, George Eliot

The Salt Marsh Murders, Gladys Mitchell

 

Ngaio Marsh

Wickford Point, John Marquand

Fog of Doubt, Christianna Brand

 

 

 

 

 

 

AAP

Barbara Kingsolver

Proud Tower, Barbara Tuchman

P.D. James

 

Rumer Godden

John Adams, David McCullough

Josephine Tey

 

 

 

 

 

 

BP