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She based this story on an actual case of 1877, which she heard about through her lawyer brother David . She gave most of her characters the same Christian names as their actual originals; her...

Persephone Books posthumously collected twenty-one short stories as Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes.

A second collection of MPD 's New Yorker short stories was published in 2002 by Persephone , entitled Minnie's Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes, and bearing as cover design a fabric from...

Winter's other writing commitments prompted her to cease editing Winter's Weekly in September 1894, but it continued publication until 1895.

In Princes in the Land, a novel published in 1938 (reprinted by Persephone Books in 2006), JC tackles the topic of motherhood. Her protagonist, Patricia, who has enjoyed great happiness as a mother of...

Her publishers at Persephone chart the progress of her reputation through an experience around the turn of the century related by Ian Hamilton . A train of thought about forgotten names in Johnson 's Lives...

This novel, written in a rage and in a tent within sound of guns and shells, was reprinted by Persephone Books in 1999 as its opening title in a cover featuring an Omega Workshops fabric...

Persephone Books reprinted this book in 2000 with a cover design (a Liberty print of 1896) of thistles designed to symbolise both EMD 's characteristic prickly tone and the thorny path besetting her heroine.

This was ironical, since her aim had been to produce something new and different. She titled the book with the name of Tennyson 's heroine who waits interminably in her moated grange for a...

ML dedicated this novel to her son Jonathan. She took her title from Blake 's The Little Boy Lost: Father, father where are you going? / Oh, do not walk so fast! / Speak...

She used to get up at about 4 a.m. and write until the baby woke. The title stemmed in part from the windiness of Cape Cod (where she was living), in part from her heroine's...

She dedicated this novel to her grandparents and her daughter. Persephone Books issued a reprint in winter 2004.

PF wrote twice about her writer aunt, Winifred Peck , and particularly about her wartime novel House-Bound. In 1985 she wrote in the Times Literary Supplement that this was the one among all her...

AL had requested for it a binding like that of The Aspern Papers: double gold lines and dark cloth very nicely got up, but dark red instead of the James volume's blue. A...

KM left at least fifteen stories unfinished. The final book which she planned—and which she intended to be her first mature and fully-conceived work—was never written; nor were the novels which she meant to write...