Persephone Books

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This novel, written in a rage and in a tent within sound of guns and shells, was reprinted by Persephone Books in 1999 as its opening title in a cover featuring an Omega Workshops fabric...

This novel was awarded the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse in early 1920. The Times announcement of the award mentioned that it was worth £40 and that a committee (with Marie Belloc Lowndes as president...

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...

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...

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...

Persephone 's webside quotes two excellent reviews from the date of first publication—one from John Betjeman and one from Elizabeth Bowen .

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.

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.