Daughters of Albion (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: A. N. Wilson
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The mid-1960’s
- Setting: England, primarily London
- Principal Characters: Rice Robey, Julian Ramsay, Felicity Ramsay, Miles Darnley, Roy Ramsay, Mrs. Paxton, Sargent Lampitt, Vernon “Ernie” Lampitt, Raphael Hunter
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, Novelists, England or English people, Jesus Christ, Gossip, Archaeology or archaeologists, Societies
- Locales: London, England
Julian Ramsay, a graduate of the University of Oxford, hoped to be a writer, but after publishing a single novel he has had to make his living as a radio actor, playing a character in a popular British Broadcasting Corporation serial. In this third novel in A. N. Wilson’s series dealing with a large group of characters (see Magill’s Literary Annual, 1990 and 1991, for reviews of the first two novels in the sequence, Incline Our Hearts and A Bottle in the Smoke), Julian continues to be interested in the Lampitts, an old established family with considerable power;...
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