Mollie Panter-Downes

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Mollie Panter-Downes specialized in wartime journalism for the New Yorker magazine, but she also wrote travel articles, reviews, poetry, novels, short stories, and children's literature. From 1938 to 1987, her contributions to the New Yorker totalled 852 pieces. Her journalism took note of the trivial, ordinary things that happened to ordinary people,
Lestage, Gregory, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Preface”. Good Evening, Mrs Craven, edited by Gregory Lestage and Gregory Lestage, Persephone Books, p. vii - xxiii.
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while her short stories and novels often tackled the human spirit under times of great distress. She was so closely associated with the New Yorker that she was often thought . . . to be American.
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, pp. 191-03.
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Milestones

25 August 1906

MPD was born, either in Ireland or in London.
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1918

The child MPD published poetry in the Poetry Review.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

October 1940

Letter from England, a collection of MPD 's wartime New Yorker journalism, was published in Boston.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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1947

MPD published One Fine Day, a short novel and her first for sixteen years, with a dedication to William Shawn , her New Yorker editor.
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April 1971

MPD published a biography about the domestic life of Algernon Charles Swinburne and Theodore Watts-Dunton , entitled At The Pines: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1973
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22 January 1997

MPD died at Eastbury Manor, Compton, Surrey (where she was receiving care), though she had lived at her own house almost until the end.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

Biography

Birth and Family

25 August 1906

MPD was born, either in Ireland or in London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
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