Category: Persephone

• Torn Loyalties of an Evacuee

  Doreen, by Barbara Noble, tells the story of a nine-year-old girl who is evacuated from a London slum during WW2,  and cared for by a well-to-do couple in the country. In the few short months she is there, she is torn between love of this new life, offering undreamed-of opportunities, and love of her mother…

  chrisharding53

  July 28, 2021

  20thC, Novels, Persephone

  Barbara Noble, Doreen.;, Evacuation, WW2

• One Woman’s Year

  January…. In this Month, let not Blood, nor use physick,  unless necessity constrain thee; beware of taking cold, for Rheums and Plegm do much increase this Moneth; it’s hurtful to fast long, to drink White Wine fasting is good, Use Meats that are moderately hot, for the best physick is warm diet, warm Cloathes, good…

  chrisharding53

  January 7, 2020

  Biography, Non-fiction, Persephone

• 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…

  chrisharding53

  September 19, 2019

  Novels, Persephone

• 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…

  chrisharding53

  February 26, 2018

  20thC, Novels, Persephone

  Dorothy Whipple, Someone At A Distance, Underappreciated Female Authors

• Cats, Books and Squares!

  Another bookshop post I’m afraid… because I’ve been staying in London for a few days looking after my younger daughter’s cat while she and her boyfriend went ‘Up North’ to see his family, and London is full of bookshops, so my ‘No New Books’ resolution has gone by the board! But London is full of…

  chrisharding53

  February 20, 2018

  20thC, Biography, Non-fiction, Persephone, Uncategorized

  Bloomsbury Garden Squares