Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne, 1994.
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Dedications | Noel Streatfeild | 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. |
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. Marques, Susan LowndesEditor , Chatto and Windus, 1971. 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. Persephone Books. |
Literary responses | Monica Dickens | Persephone
's webside quotes two excellent reviews from the date of first publication—one from John Betjeman
and one from Elizabeth Bowen
. Persephone Books. |
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 |
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... |
Publishing | Katherine Mansfield | 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... |
Publishing | Lettice Cooper | This was reprinted by Penguin
in 1946, by Virago
in 1987, and by Persephone Books
in 2004. British Library Catalogue. |
Publishing | Susan Miles | 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
. Miles, Susan. “Disgrace”. The Guardian, p. Review 27. 27 |
Publishing | Richmal Crompton | Persephone Books
re-issued this novel in 2001. British Library Catalogue. |
Publishing | E. M. Delafield | 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. Persephone Books. |
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... |