Persephone Books

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Textual Production Mollie Panter-Downes
Persephone Books posthumously collected twenty-one short stories as Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production 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...
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,
qtd. in
Youngkin, Molly. “"Independent in Thought and Expression, Kindly and Tolerant in Tone": Henrietta Stannard, Golden Gates, and Gender Controversies in Fin-de-Siècle Periodicals”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol.
38
, No. 3, 2005, pp. 307-29.
320
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 Marghanita Laski
She dedicated this novel to her grandparents and her daughter. Persephone Books issued a reprint in winter 2004.
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 Amy Levy
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.
qtd. in
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
149
A...
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 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...
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, 24 Aug. 2002, p. Review 27.
27
Publishing Dorothy Whipple
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...
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.

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.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.

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.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
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.
Miles, Susan. Lettice Delmer. Persephone Books, 2002.
Miles, Susan. “Publisher’s Note”. Lettice Delmer, Persephone Books, 2002, p. v - xii.
Miller, Betty, and Jane Eldridge Miller. Farewell Leicester Square. Persephone Books, 2000.
Miller, Jane Eldridge, and Betty Miller. “Preface”. Farewell Leicester Square, Persephone Books, 2000, p. vii - xix.
Panter-Downes, Mollie. Good Evening, Mrs Craven. Editor Lestage, Gregory, Persephone Books, 1999.
Panter-Downes, Mollie. Minnie’s Room. Persephone Books, 2002.
Whipple, Dorothy. The Priory. Persephone Books, 2003, p. 528 pp.