Tag: 1930s

• Bognor Holidays

  Almost exactly a year ago I mentioned RC Sherriff’s The Fortnight in September, which I started reading on a train home from London (after a visit to Younger Daughter which took in a trip to the Persephone Shop), and said I would do a proper review at a later stage. Then it all went very…

  chrisharding53

  January 6, 2018

  Novels, Persephone

  1930s, holiday, RC Sherriff, The Fortnight in September

• An Impossible Marriage

  Right, after Margery Sharp here’s another New-to-Me novelist to enthuse about – Pamela Hansford Johnson who was, apparently, immensely popular from the late 1930s through to the 1960s, but seems to have been largely forgotten in recent years. I’ve seen a couple of blog posts about her, and read reviews of Wendy Pollard’s ‘Pamela Hansford…

  chrisharding53

  February 18, 2015

  1930s, 1950s novel, Bello digital re-issues, forgotten novel, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Pan Mamillan