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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Angus Wilson
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(1913–91, kt 1980) Novelist and writer of short stories, with a keen eye for quirks of character and oddities of social class. He was a librarian in the British Museum (now the British Library) when his first two books of short stories came out (The Wrong Set 1949, Those Darling Dodos 1950); the novels which followed included Hemlock and After (1952), Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) and The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot (1958). All were notable for the wide range of characters (academics, society hostesses, chorus boys, rough trade) among whom the author felt at ease. He himself said that his passport was being, as a homosexual, a member of a 'half-secret society' transcending the class structure.
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