Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Mollie Panter-Downes
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Standard Name: Panter-Downes, Mollie
Birth Name: Mary Patricia Panter-Downes
Nickname: Mollie
Married Name: Mary Patricia Robinson
Mollie Panter-Downes
specialized in wartime journalism for the New Yorker magazine, but she also wrote travel articles, reviews, poetry, novels, short stories, and children's literature. From 1938 to 1987, her contributions to the New Yorker totalled 852 pieces. Her journalism took note of the trivial, ordinary things that happened to ordinary people,
qtd. in
Lestage, Gregory, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Preface”. Good Evening, Mrs Craven, edited by Gregory Lestage and Gregory Lestage, Persephone Books, 1999, p. vii - xxiii.
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while her short stories and novels often tackled the human spirit under times of great distress. She was so closely associated with the New Yorker that she was often thought . . . to be American.
qtd. in
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.
21 February 1924: The first issue appeared of the New Yorker...
Writing climate item
21 February 1924
The first issue appeared of the New Yorker magazine (still going strong in the twenty-first century).
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 February 2011
Kindley, Evan. “Ismism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 2, 23 Jan. 2014, pp. 33-5.
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Texts
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.
Panter-Downes, Mollie. At The Pines. Hamish Hamilton, 1971.
Lestage, Gregory, and Mollie Panter-Downes. “Preface”. Good Evening, Mrs Craven, edited by Gregory Lestage and Gregory Lestage, Persephone Books, 1999, p. vii - xxiii.
Panter-Downes, Mollie. Storm Bird. John Murray, 1929.
Panter-Downes, Mollie. The Chase. G. P. Putnam and Sons, 1925.
Panter-Downes, Mollie. The Shoreless Sea. John Murray, 1923.
Panter-Downes, Mollie, and Mildred Cloete. Watling Green. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1943.