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Trooper to the Southern Cross

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Description: "Angela Thirkell, the famous novelist, was born in London in 1890, and travelled to Australia after World War I with her husband and 2 sons. The basis for 'Trooper to the Southern Cross' was found in the astonishing facts of their voyage to Australia on what was primarily a troopship returning about 800 Diggers to Australia. Angela Thirkell on a ship full of returning Diggers! A buried comic masterpiece. Hidden under a pseudonym, Angela Thirkell, best-selling chronicler of the English counties, is now revealed to be a brilliant satirist of the Australian character. Thirty years before Barry Humphries (who loves the book) she captures our idiom and our tastes -- with deadpan innocence and no mercy, her irony sails right home"--Back cover.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1966]
Call number: 657408
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Thirkell, Angela (1890-1961)(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Gift of Angela Thirkell Society of North America, March 2026.

Dimensions

19 cm.

Associated organizations

Sun Books (Melbourne, Australia),

Griffin Press (Adelaide, Australia),

Angela Thirkell Society North American Branch,

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