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, 1994.
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
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
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
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
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.
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, 1971.
Lowndes, Diaries 267
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, 1935.
157
The Times announcement of the award mentioned that it was worth £40 and that a committee (with Marie Belloc Lowndes
as president...
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...
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
Dorothy Whipple
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.
Publishing
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Publishing
Betty Miller
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...
Publishing
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
264
A film version of it...
Publishing
Margaret Oliphant
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...
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.
Ochocka, Alice. “The Height of Spring”. Mslexia, No. 38, July 2008, p. 6.
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Texts
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.
