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Beaconsfield's link with a lady novelist
Note in an article on Angela Thirkell a well known authoress detailing English country life. She visited before the 2nd world war and moved here when war broke out. Known as the grande dame sans merci of the London literary world according to Margot Strickland who wrote her biography. She was Rudyard Kiplings and Stanley Baldwins cousins. Her book Cheerfulness Breaks In details life with Miss Collins G K Chestertons secretary renting one of her rooms for unmarried mothers at Top Meadows. She dies in 1960.
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