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.
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
The Times announcement of the award mentioned that it was worth £40 and that a committee (with Marie Belloc Lowndes
as president...
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. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
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.
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
Cicely Hamilton
This novel, written in a rage and in a tent within sound of guns and shells,
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...
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
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. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Publishing
Marghanita Laski
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...
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.
