THIRKELL, ANGELA — Three Houses

London, England: Oxford University Press, 1950. 6th Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book is in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright, but has a couple of small edge nicks and bumps, along with some beginning bumping. There is a strip of repair tape to the top edge of the reverse of the dust jacket spine. The text pages are clean and bright. "Thirkell began writing early in her life in Australia, chiefly through the need for money. She published an article in the Cornhill Magazine in 1921, the first of many articles and short stories, including work for Australian radio. On her return to England in 1929, this career continued with journalism, stories for children, and then novels. Her success as a novelist began with her second novel, High Rising (1933). She set most of her novels in Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire, his fictional English county developed in the six novels known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. An alert reader of contemporary fiction, Thirkell also borrowed freely from little known titles like John Galsworthy's The Country House, from which, for example, she lifted the name 'Worsted' which she used for the village setting of her novel August Folly (1936) " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket .