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Date: 2023-05-27 09:13 pm (UTC)
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I Capture the Castle (1947) occurred to me as another possibility, but the Wikipedia article says there's a reference to it taking place in the 1930s, which I must admit I have never noticed despite having read the book dozens of times.

Huh. I also have it set mentally in the interwar period, but not because I can remember any sociopolitical references to that effect. I wonder if it could be internally dated by its book—Jacob Wrestling is explicitly described as post-war literature, one of the forerunners of Ulysses, and Simon is supposed to have read it at university, and this would be a lot easier if my copy weren't in storage, too.

[edit] No, it's right there in the text: "I suppose no normally intelligent person living in the nineteen-thirties can fail to have some faint inkling of what psycho-analysis is, but there are few things about which I know less." I didn't remember that, even though it's directly part of the plot; Cassandra and Thomas wouldn't have locked up their father without it.
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