Miss Bunting Author:Angela Thirkell Miss Bunting, first published in 1945, returns us to Angela Thirkell's Barsetshire--a fictional stretch of countryside well-loved by legion of devoted readers--six years into wartime. While "the war had mingled al races and creeds, it had not as yet mingled Old Town and New." The carefully observed separation of the old an... more »d new social strata is upset when representatives of each come together in the sphere of Miss Bunting--the governess who has molded most of the county's upper class. Under Miss Bunting's tutelage, Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Fielding, renews an old school acquaintance with the daughter of Hogglestock's successful, albeit not genteel, ironmaster. "We must move with the times," says the unflappable governess when Lady Fielding questions the suitability of this association. With characteristic aplomb, Miss Buntion takes girls and situation both firmly in hand and sets all things to right.« less