Tag: Vintage Penguin

• Falling Leaves in High Rising!

  Falling leaves… A cover – and some pages! I’d never heard of Angela Thirkell until I read a post by Claire at The Captive Reader, who is a great enthusiast and has written about her on several occasions. Since Claire seems to enjoy many of my own favourite novels, I find I usually like her…

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  November 9, 2012

  1930s novel, Angela Thirkell, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Vintage Penguin

• Farewell Victoria

  My vintage Penguin waspublished in 1945, and hasa dancing Penguin logo,used for a short period. Farewell Victoria, by TH White is a paean to bygone era and must, I think, have been something of a curiosity, even when it was first published in 1933. It’s interesting for its record of rural customs in Victorian times, and…

  chrisharding53

  July 11, 2012

  20th century, 20th Century Fiction, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Victoria, Vintage Penguin

• Beauty Tips From An Old Penguin

  Looking beautiful in the 1950s must have been a full-time job for a woman. Even at night there was no let-up. You were advised to sleep with an elasticated band tied ‘fairly tightly’ under your chin and knotted on top of the head (to prevent a double chin),  to don bed socks and cotton gloves…

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  June 18, 2012

  bed socks, cotton gloves, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, mothballs, Old Penguin, The Penguin Book of Health and Beauty Recipes, Vintage Penguin