Angela Mackail (later AT
) married, at St Philip's Church, Kensington, James Campbell McInnes
, whom she had met only six weeks before.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Angela Thirkell
Angela McInnes (later AT
) divorced her first husband
on the grounds of cruelty and adultery; she received custody of their children.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Angela Thirkell
James Campbell McInnes
was a concert baritone and later a professor of music, who came from a family of mill-workers. He found men as sexually attractive as women: by the time he met Angela he...
Material Conditions of Writing
Angela Thirkell
Thirkell began writing this book late in 1934 (under pressure of anxiety because her first husband, James Campbell McInnes
, was back in England from Canada for the first time in years). To her publisher,...
