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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...

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

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...

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...

SM published with Linden Press of London her long poem or verse novel Lettice Delmer; it had almost been forgotten when reprinted in 2002 by Persephone .

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...

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...

The provisional title under which it was rejected was Next Year in Jerusalem (a far cry from the later title—which is also that of one of her protagonist's films—which evokes both a fashionable area of...

In 2010 Persephone Books reprinted this story or novella together with another one by MO , The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow, giving the combined book the title of the latter. The combination of these...

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 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...

House-Bound, first published in 1942, was re-issued by Persephone Books in 2007, with an introduction by the late Penelope Fitzgerald , WP 's niece and fellow novelist. The edition had been planned for almost...