The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot

The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot

First edition
Author Angus Wilson
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Publisher Secker and Warburg
Publication date
November 1958
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 430pp
ISBN 0-436-57505-1
OCLC 256140343

The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot is a novel by Angus Wilson, first published in 1958. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for that year, and has been regularly reprinted ever since.

It describes the fortunes of Meg Eliot, a happy and active woman, the wife of a barrister, who finds herself a widow in reduced circumstances after the shocking murder of her husband abroad.

Her attempts to rebuild her life are placed in contrast with the self-isolation of her brother, David, who lives with his dying partner Gordon at a commercial nursery in Sussex.

Wilson conceived the idea for the story in September 1957, while visiting Thailand, which is possibly the model for the fictional country of Badai.[1]

The first edition dust jacket was designed by Michael Ayrton.

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Footnotes

  1. Margaret Drabble. Angus Wilson. Secker and Warburg, London, 1995. Page 238.


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