Tag: Someone At A Distance

• 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