Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne, 1994.
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Dedications | Noel Streatfeild | NS
published an adult novel entitled Saplings (dedicated to her mother), which was chosen by Persephone Books
for reprinting in 2000. Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne, 1994. 64-5 British Library Catalogue. |
Literary responses | Marghanita Laski | Reviews were mixed. The San Francisco Chronicle called this a tour-de-force of its kind,, a little jewel of horror. The Times Literary Supplement dismissed it as surprisingly sentimental and not a very original story... |
Literary responses | Frances Hodgson Burnett | The website of Persephone Books
, recent publishers of this novel, argues that Bettina is one of the great self-reliant heroines of fiction, and that the focus of the novel falls on her American energy... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Whipple | DW
was an unacknowledged favourite of Ivy Compton-Burnett
and evidently of Elizabeth Taylor
too, since Taylor borrowed for her novel Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont from the opening of a story among Whipple's papers, which... |
Literary responses | Susan Miles | This book appeared with very distinguished endorsement on its jacket. T. S. Eliot
wrote that he found it a very poignant story.Storm Jameson
wrote, Its simplicities are at a profound level. The theme is... |
Literary responses | E. M. Delafield | Marie Belloc Lowndes
, a Roman Catholic, observed in late 1945 that EMD
's early anti-Catholic suffered from a failure of realism, being filled with fantastic imaginary figures of the old Catholic world. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Marques, Susan LowndesEditor , Chatto and Windus, 1971. Lowndes, Diaries 267 |
Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | Merryn Williams
observed in an afterword to the Persephone
edition that both these stories deal with the terribly destructive effects of middle-aged passion. Persephone Books. |
Literary responses | Monica Dickens | Persephone
's webside quotes two excellent reviews from the date of first publication—one from John Betjeman
and one from Elizabeth Bowen
. Persephone Books. |
Literary responses | Cicely Hamilton | This novel was awarded the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse in early 1920. Hamilton, Cicely. Life Errant. J. M. Dent and Sons, 1935. 157 |
Publishing | Diana Athill | DA
collected her later stories as Midsummer Night in the Workhouse, published by Persephone
in London (and House of Anansi
in Toronto) with a new preface by herself. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. British Library Catalogue. |
Publishing | Marghanita Laski | |
Publishing | Dorothy Whipple | She decided to write this one in preference to a different potential novel which was also pressing to be written. She made two false starts before she could feel the story was launched. For use... |
Publishing | Frances Hodgson Burnett | This was re-issued by Persephone Books
in 2001 (together with, in the same volume, its sequel, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst). It was subsequently broadcast as a BBC Radio Four
classic serial. Persephone Books. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. |
Publishing | Marghanita Laski | She dedicated this novel to her grandparents and her daughter. Persephone Books
issued a reprint in winter 2004. |
Publishing | Dorothy Whipple | She had the idea for this book about a country house family, requiring detailed knowledge of cricket, while sitting in the hot sun shortly after her previous novel appeared. The new idea made her pulse... |