Tag: daughters

• Let’s Hear it for Older Women (The Winds of Heaven)

  I’m still with Persephone, but today’s thoughts are about a novel rather than a short story. I’ve been reading The Winds of Heaven, by Monica Dickens, which meets my current craving for happy endings. But don’t get the idea this is fluffy, because it’s not. Dickens highlights the difficulties faced by an older woman, her…

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  May 21, 2013

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• Guard Your Daughters

  My copy has no dust jacket, and is plain red, with no title on the cover, which doesn’t make for a good picture, so here is a nicer cover! I’m very fond of my new friends, but I do get angry when the tell me how dull my life must have been before I came to London. We…

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  October 24, 2012

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• Mother’s Day with Milly-Molly-Mandy

  Well, it’s Mother’s Day, and I’ve had a bouquet of roses, some rose petal handcream, a beautiful bar of soap – and The Daughters also left messages on Facebook about two of their favourite childhood books, Joyce Lankester Brisley’s Milly-Molly-Mandy, and My Naughty Little Sister, by Dorothy Edwards, reminding me how I used to read…

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  March 18, 2012

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