Category: 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 of my new Persephones), and can’t write about it yet (obviously), so I’ve selected something…

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  September 24, 2019

  Crime, Novels

• 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 lived in London so I was able to treat myself to spring and autumn trips…

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  September 19, 2019

  Novels, Persephone

• 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 misfortune to be forgotten not once, but twice. In her heyday, during the 1920s and…

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  March 21, 2018

  20thC, Novels, Virago

  EH Young, William

• 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 in 2008, Virago founder Carmen Callil said: “Whipple was a popular novelist of the 1930s…

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  February 26, 2018

  20thC, Novels, Persephone

  Dorothy Whipple, Someone At A Distance, Underappreciated Female Authors

• 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, and that’s all you need to know about the place, for it’s not the important…

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  February 23, 2018

  Novels

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Forgotten children’s classic, Understood Betsy