The Book Trunk

Novels

  • Discovering Georgette Heyer

      I should have begun the last post with an apology for not writing anything for so long,, but I shall merely say that sometimes Life Gets in the Way. Anyway, I am reading A Lady and Her Husband (one… Continue reading

  • Persephone Post…

    Hooray! The postman has been with parcels from those lovely people at Persephone: And inside are these: With their lovely bookmarks: I am very excited about these, but a little sad because for the past six years my Younger Daughter… Continue reading

  • It’s Emily Hilda Young Day!

    Today I am celebrating another of the Underappreciated Lady Authors gathered together by Jane at Beyond Eden Rock. Emily Hilda Young, was born on this day in 1880 and, like many of those old ‘green’ VMC authors, has had the… Continue reading

  • Happy Birthday Dorothy Whipple!

    Dorothy Whipple famously – or perhaps infamously – was the novelist Virago refused to publish. Worse still, the company had a standard known as the ‘Whipple line’, below which they ‘would not sink’. Explaining her position in a Guardian article back… Continue reading

  • A Forgotten Children’s Classic

        “When this story begins, Elizabeth Ann, who is the heroine of it, was a little girl of nine, who lived with her Great-aunt Harriet in a medium-sized city in a medium-sized state in the middle of this country,… Continue reading