A second collection of MPD
's New Yorker short stories was published in 2002 by Persephone
, entitled Minnie's Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes, and bearing as cover design a fabric from...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Jenkins
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...
Textual Features
John Strange Winter
Winter's other writing commitments prompted her to cease editing Winter's Weekly in September 1894, but it continued publication until 1895.
Winter wrote that she was handing over to a sister writer with capable hands,
Youngkin, Molly. “"Independent in Thought and Expression, Kindly and Tolerant in Tone": Henrietta Stannard, <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Golden Gates</span>, and Gender Controversies in Fin-de-Siècle Periodicals”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol.
38
, No. 3, pp. 307-29.
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Textual Features
Joanna Cannan
In Princes in the Land, a novel published in 1938 (reprinted by Persephone Books
in 2006), JC
tackles the topic of motherhood. Her protagonist, Patricia, who has enjoyed great happiness as a mother of...
Reception
Susan Miles
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...
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
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...
Publishing
Monica Dickens
This was ironical, since her aim had been to produce something new and different.
Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann.
67
She titled the book with the name of Tennyson
's heroine who waits interminably in her moated grange for a...
Publishing
Monica Dickens
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...
Publishing
Penelope Fitzgerald
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...
Publishing
Winifred Peck
House-Bound, first published in 1942, was re-issued by Persephone Books
in 2007, with an introduction by the late Penelope Fitzgerald
, WP
's niece and fellow novelist. The edition had been planned for almost...
Publishing
Cicely Hamilton
This novel, written in a rage and in a tent within sound of guns and shells,
JS
wrote the novel while staying with her aunt Dorothy Bussy
's family at Roquebrune in France, informally separated from her first husband, Stephen Tomlin
.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown.
113, 116
After finishing her manuscript, she sent...
Publishing
Dorothy Whipple
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...
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.
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.
