Angela Lambert (1940 - 2007) was a British journalist, art critic and author, best known for the novel A Rather English Marriage. Born as Angela Maria Helps to a civil servant and a German-born housewife, she was unhappy when sent to Wispers School, a girls' boarding school in Sussex, where by the age of 12 she had decided that she wanted to be a writer. She went to St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she read politics, philosophy and economics. She began her career as a journalist in 1969, working for ITN before joining The Independent newspaper in 1988.
Acknowledgments Part One: The Girls from the Stately Homes of England 1
Becoming a Deb is a Difficult Matter: Who Did the Season, and Why? 2 I've
Been to London to Look at the Queen 3 The Childhood of the Debs: Preparing
to be a Beautiful Lady 4 Change Your Partner, Dance While You Can Part Two:
That Unspeakable Summer Prologue 5 The Last Four Months of Peace: May 6 The
Last Three Months of Peace: June 7 The Last Two Months of Peace: July 8 The
Last Month of Peace: August Part Three: The War: Real Phoney and Aftermath
9 This Country is at War with Germany 10 An Excellent Introduction for
Life? Appendix: Slang Expressions Current in 1939 Select Bibliography
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