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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...

This was re-issued by Persephone Books in 2001 (together with, in the same volume, its sequel, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst). It was subsequently broadcast as a BBC Radio Four classic serial.

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

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...

This novel appeared on both sides of the Atlantic together, as was now usual for works by FHB . It was said to have earned her $50,000 by 1910. A film version of it...

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.

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...

This was reprinted by Penguin in 1946, by Virago in 1987, and by Persephone Books in 2004.

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 .

Persephone Books re-issued this novel in 2001.

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.

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...

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...

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...