Tag: short story Sunday

• Short Story Sunday: Forbidden Love

  It’s Sunday, so it’s short story time again, and this week I’ve abandoned Persephone for Virago and I’m dipping into Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Selected Short Stories, which are every bit as wonderful as I hoped they would be. These tales, written between 1932 and 1977, are as sharply subversive as her other work led me…

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  September 8, 2013

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• Short Story Sunday: A Flawed Treasure and a Good Mother

  The Exile, by Betty Miller, is a little odd, and I didn’t really enjoy it, but it was interesting. Here we have the Moores, Edmund and Louis, and his young brother Arthur. They are middle class and well-off, leading comfortable, cosy lives but are made uneasy by the appearance of their new servant. Russian Irina…

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  September 1, 2013

  Betty Miller, Children, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Persephone, short story Sunday

• Ladies Who Lunch – With a Hidden Past!

  Somehow, as I read this short story I thought of our two ladies being Edwardian, but there are references to flying and a speakeasy, which would place it in the 1920s or the early ’30s. I our imagine the duo slightly older and stouter than this pair, and wearing their furs, despite the mid-day heat,…

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  August 11, 2013

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  Edith Wharton. Roman Fever, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, short story Sunday

• A Little Less Conversation Please!

  Edward Hopper’s Room in New York… And there is a link to this week’s Short Story Sunday, I promise… Just read on… It’s Sunday again (it does seem to come round very quickly), and that means it’s time for another short story, so out of my wonderful Persephone anthology comes Here We Are, by Dorothy…

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  June 30, 2013

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• Short Story Sunday

  Back to Persephone this week, and a sweetly moving tale about enduring love, and faith. The Pain was written by South African born Pauline Smith in 1923, and is set in her native land. Juriaan van Royien and his wife Deltje have been married almost 50 years. They have no children and few possessions, and…

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  June 9, 2013

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