I am not setting any deadline on reading all the titles reprinted by Persephone Books but it’s nice to have the list of them all here on the blog as a handy summary… and as inspiration when I am thinking about what to read next. :)
Titles in green have been read but not yet reviewed, links in blue will take you to my review.
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1) Cicely Hamilton – William – an Englishman
2) Monica Dickens – Mariana
3) Dorothy Whipple – Someone at a Distance
4) Susan Glaspell – Fidelity
5) Etty Hillesum – An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43
6) Marghanita Laski – The Victorian Chaise-Longue
7) Dorothy Canfield Fisher – The Home-Maker
8) Mollie Panter-Downes – Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
9) Vere Hodgson – Few Eggs and No Oranges
10) Florence White – Good Things in England
11) Nicholas Mosley – Julian Grenfell
12) Judith Viorst – It’s Hard to be Hip Over Thirty
13) E.M. Delafield – Consequences
14) Betty Miller – Farewell Leicester Square
15) Elizabeth Berridge – Tell It To a Stranger
16) Noel Streatfeild – Saplings
17) Oriel Malet – Marjory Fleming
18) Isobel English – Every Eye
19) Dorothy Whipple – They Knew Mr Knight
20) Ruth Adam – A Woman’s Place: 1910-75
21) Winifred Watson – Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
22) Virginia Graham – Consider The Years
23) Amy Levy – Reuben Sachs
24) Richmal Crompton – Family Roundabout
25) Katherine Mansfield – The Montana Stories
26) Susan Glaspell – Brook Evans
27) Eleanor Graham – The Children Who Lived in a Barn
28) Marghanita Laski – Little Boy Lost
29) Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Making of a Marchioness
30) Agnes Jekyll – Kitchen Essays
31) Jocelyn Playfair – A House in the Country
32) Thea Holme – The Carlyles at Home
33) Emma Smith – The Far Cry
34) Mollie Panter-Downes – Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
35) Denis Mackail – Greenery Street
36) Susan Miles – Lettice Delmer
37) Elizabeth Anna Hart – The Runaway
38) Julia Strachey – Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
39) Anna Gmeyner - Manja
40) Dorothy Whipple – The Priory
41) Elizabeth Cambridge – Hostages to Fortune
42) Elisabeth Sanxay Holding – The Blank Wall
43) Leonard Woolf – The Wise Virgins
44) Frances Towers – Tea With Mr Rochester
45) Ambrose Heath – Good Food on the Aga
46) Barbara Euphan Todd – Miss Ranskill Comes Home
47) Lettice Cooper – The New House
48) Margareth Bonham – The Casino
49) Helen Ashton – Bricks and Mortar
50) Hilda Bernstein – The World That Was Ours
51) Duff Cooper – Operation Heartbreak
52) Marghanita Laski – The Village
53) Ruby Ferguson – Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary
54) Vicomte De Mauduit – They Can’t Ration These
55) Virginia Woolf – Flush
56) Dorothy Whipple – They Were Sisters
57) RC Sherriff – The Hopkins Manuscript
58) Ethel Wilson – Hetty Dorval
59) Norah Hoult – There Were No Windows
60) Barbara Noble – Doreen
61) Molly Hughes – A London Child of the 1870s
62) Kay Smallshaw – How To Run Your Home Without Help
63) Joanna Cannan – Princess in the Land
64) Diana Gardner – The Woman Novelist and Other Stories
65) Rachel Ferguson – Alas, Poor Lady
66) Muriel Stuart – Gardener’s Nightcap
67) RC Sherriff – The Fortnight in September
68) Dorothy B Hughes – The Expendable Man
69) Katherine Mansfield – Journal
70) Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd – Plats Du Jour
71) Frances Hodgson Burnett – The Shuttle
72) Winifred Peck – House-Bound
73) Edith Henrietta Fowler – The Young Pretenders
74) Dorothy Whipple – The Closed Door and Other Stories
75) Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg – On the Other Side: Letters to my Children from Germany 1940-46
76) Winifred Holtby – The Crowded Street
77) Penelope Mortimer – Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting
78) Nicole Beauman – A Very Great Profession
79) Maud Pember Reeves – Round About a Pound a Week
80) Lucy H Yates – The Country Housewife’s Book
81) DE Stevenson – Miss Buncle’s Book
82) Arthur Hugh Clough – Amours de Voyage
83) Christine Longford – Making Conversation
84) Mrs Rundell – A New System of Domestic Cookery
85) Dorothy Whipple – High Wages
86) Marghanita Laski – To Bed With Grand Music
87) Irène Némirovsky – Dimanche and Other Stories
88) Beth Gutcheon – Still Missing
89) Mrs Oliphant – The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow
90) Monica Dickens – The Winds of Heaven
91) DE Stevenson – Miss Buncle Married
92) Diana Athill – Midsummer Night in the Workhouse
93) Adam Fergusson – The Sack of Bath
94) Constance Maud – No Surrender
95) Dorothy Whipple – Greenbanks
96) Rachel and Margaret Ryan – Dinners for Beginners
97) Elizabeth Jenkins – Harriet
98) Virginia Woolf – A Writer’s Diary
99) John Coates – Patience
100) The Persephone Book of Short Stories
101) Helen Hull – Heat Lightning
102) Elisabeth de Waal – The Exiles Return
January 16, 2013 at 12:12
You have many wonderful books ahead of you. I do love Persephone.
January 16, 2013 at 13:53
I’d like to read all the Persephone titles, too. I wonder how many I’ve gotten to so far–the last couple of years I’ve sadly read very few of their back (or front!) list, but I hope to change that this year. Looks like you are off to a good start!
January 18, 2013 at 17:31
I actually have a few on my shelves in old Penguin and Virago editions so I suspect I’ll have read a decent sized sample by the end of the year – I’m hoping some of them can count for my Century of Books challenge. :)
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