 First edition cover | |
| Author | Anthony Powell |
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| Cover artist | James Broom-Lynne |
| Language | English |
| Series | A Dance to the Music of Time |
| Publisher | Heinemann |
Publication date | 1957 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 239 pp |
| Preceded by | The Acceptance World |
| Followed by | Casanova's Chinese Restaurant |
At Lady Molly's is the fourth volume in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1957, At Lady Molly's is set in England of the mid-1930s and is essentially a comedy of manners, but in the background, the rise of Hitler and of worldwide Fascism are not ignored. The driving theme of At Lady Molly's is married life; marriages – as practised or mooted – among the narrator's (Nick Jenkins) acquaintances in bohemian society and the landed classes are pondered. Meanwhile, the career moves of various characters are advanced, checked or put on hold.[1]
The portrait of the aristocratic Tolland family is sourced in part from Powell's own in-laws, the Pakenhams.
- ^ Spurling, Hilary. Invitation to the Dance: A Guide to Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time. 1st American ed. Boston: Little, Brown,1978.