At Lady Molly's [SEP] series
At Lady Molly's
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
unless they were employees). It was at Lady Molly's that Widerpool first met Mildred, Mrs Haycock. Nick Jenkins re-encounters Alfred Tolland and Mark Members there.
- Captain Teddy Jeavons. Lady Molly's second husband. Badly wounded during the war and awarded the Military Medal. Nick finds him intriguing although he finds "in the last resort his company was exhausting rather than stimulating" and thinks of him as having a mind "seething with forgotten melodies, forever stirring him to indiscretion by provoking memories of an