Persephone Books

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
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.
Publishing Frances Hodgson Burnett
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.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Publishing Frances Hodgson Burnett
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.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
264
A film version of it...
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 Julia Strachey
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, 1983.
113, 116
After finishing her manuscript, she sent...
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 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 Lettice Cooper
This was reprinted by Penguin in 1946, by Virago in 1987, and by Persephone Books in 2004.
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 Richmal Crompton
Persephone Books re-issued this novel in 2001.
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 E. M. Delafield
Persephone Books reprinted this book in 2000 with a cover design (a Liberty print of 1896) of thistles designed to symbolise both EMD 's characteristic prickly tone and the thorny path besetting her heroine.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
Publishing Cicely Hamilton
This novel, written in a rage and in a tent within sound of guns and shells,
qtd. in
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
was reprinted by Persephone Books in 1999 as its opening title in a cover featuring an Omega Workshops fabric...
Publishing Monica Dickens
This was ironical, since her aim had been to produce something new and different.
Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann, 1978.
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 Marghanita Laski
ML dedicated this novel to her son Jonathan. She took her title from Blake 's The Little Boy Lost: Father, father where are you going? / Oh, do not walk so fast! / Speak...

Timeline

No timeline events available.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.