Persephone Books

Persephone Books posthumously collected twenty-one short stories as Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes.

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...

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...

Winter's other writing commitments prompted her to cease editing Winter's Weekly in September 1894, but it continued publication until 1895.

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...

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...

She dedicated this novel to her grandparents and her daughter. Persephone Books issued a reprint in winter 2004.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .

She had the idea for this book about a country house family, requiring detailed knowledge of cricket, while sitting in the hot sun shortly after her previous novel appeared. The new idea made her pulse...

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.

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.