Thirkell, Angela Margaret (1891–1961)

English novelist. She wrote more than 30 novels set in ‘Barsetshire’, dealing with the descendants of characters from Anthony Trollope's ‘Barsetshire’ novels, including Coronation Summer (1937), Growing Up (1943), and The Duke's Daughter (1951).

Born in London, she was the daughter of the classical scholar John William Mackail (1859–1945), grand-daughter of the painter Edward Burne-Jones, and cousin of the writer Rudyard Kipling. Her son was the novelist Colin MacInnes (1914–79).