Winter's other writing commitments prompted her to cease editing Winter's Weekly in September 1894, but it continued publication until 1895.
Winter wrote that she was handing over to a sister writer with capable hands,
Youngkin, Molly. “"Independent in Thought and Expression, Kindly and Tolerant in Tone": Henrietta Stannard, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Golden Gates</span>, and Gender Controversies in Fin-de-Siècle Periodicals”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol.
38
, No. 3, pp. 307-29.
320
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
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...
Publishing
Dorothy Whipple
It was re-issued by Persephone Books
in March 1999 with deliberate statements that its critical undervaluing amounted to the extreme rather than the merely usual.
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...
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.
64-5
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing
Julia Strachey
JS
wrote the novel while staying with her aunt Dorothy Bussy
's family at Roquebrune in France, informally separated from her first husband, Stephen Tomlin
.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown.
113, 116
After finishing her manuscript, she sent...
Publishing
Winifred Peck
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...
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...
Publishing
Margaret Oliphant
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...
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.
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...
Publishing
Susan Miles
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
.
Miles, Susan. “Disgrace”. The Guardian, p. Review 27.
27
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...
Timeline
1941: Puffin, a subsidiary of Penguin designed...
Writing climate item
1941
Puffin
, a subsidiary of Penguin
designed to publish (initially) picture books for children in paperback, issued its first four titles.
September 1998: Literary historian Nicola Beauman founded...
Women writers item
September 1998
Literary historian Nicola Beauman
founded Persephone Books
, aimed at reprinting in beautiful format forgotten classics by twentieth-century (mostly women) writers.
Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books, 2009.
Conville, David, and Dorothy Whipple. “Afterword”. The Priory, Persephone Books, 2003, pp. 529-36.
Lestage, Gregory, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Afterword: Mollie Panter-Downes and The New Yorker”. Good Evening, Mrs Craven, edited by Gregory Lestage and Gregory Lestage, Persephone Books, 1999, pp. 191-03.
Lestage, Gregory, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Preface”. Good Evening, Mrs Craven, edited by Gregory Lestage and Gregory Lestage, Persephone Books, 1999, p. vii - xxiii.
