Persephone Books

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...

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...

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 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...

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 .

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.

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.

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. A film version of it...

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...

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 . After finishing her manuscript, she sent...

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...

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...

This was reprinted by Penguin in 1946, by Virago in 1987, and by Persephone Books in 2004.