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...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. A portrait of a muddled Widow Britannia by a first-rate caricaturist...
...Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, by Angus Wilson. A portrait of a muddled Widow Britannia by a first-rate caricaturist...
Author Wilson's heroine is a smart, smug, vastly muddled and grimly girdled figure of middle-class bafflement. Meg Eliot is widowed in a fit of absentmindedness : her husband, a prosperous lawyer, is shot by a confused Asian student, who is really gunning for the Minister of Education of an Indonesian state. "If that had happened when we were young, there would have been a war about it," one character remarks. But there is no war, not even compensation for the widow. Instead, Meg faces only a set of sad second choices-social work, the society of Angry Young...
More than half a century ago Rudyard Kipling advised the world to walk wide of the Widow at Windsor (for '"alf o' creation she owns"). Now British Satirist Angus Wilson offers a look at the other side of the Victorian coin-a blowsy Widow Britannia, landed tails down on the wet asphalt of the Welfare State...
...takes dingy rooms in Kensington, enrolls in a secretarial school. She tangles with her brother, a brilliant, sexually confused war wreck, who has turned from the complexities of civilized life to the simplicities of horticulture. Author Wilson puts his widow in the temporary toils of an Angry Young Man, the pointy-bearded but pointless son of her best friend. In a savage little vignette Wilson makes clear that the fellow is angry not because he is young, but because he is not really...