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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Susan Miles | 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... |
Publishing | Katherine Mansfield | 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... |
Publishing | Amy Levy | |
Publishing | Marghanita Laski | |
Publishing | Marghanita Laski | She dedicated this novel to her grandparents and her daughter. Persephone Books
issued a reprint in winter 2004. |
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... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jenkins | 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... |
Publishing | Cicely Hamilton | This novel, written in a rage and in a tent within sound of guns and shells, Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/. |
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. 157 |
Publishing | Penelope Fitzgerald | 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... |
Publishing | Monica Dickens | This was ironical, since her aim had been to produce something new and different. Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann. 67 |
Publishing | Monica Dickens | 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... |
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. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/. |
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. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus. Lowndes, Diaries 267 |
Publishing | E. M. Delafield | 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. Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/. |
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