Persephone Book List and Reads

Hi Dear Folk,

I printed up this Persephone list to see where I stood with my book reading.  Out of forty-four Persephone books read, I have only written reviews on twenty-one, ouch! I didn't realize that I had done so much more reading than writing.

The books marked in green I have read and reviewed, the books marked in yellow I have read.  At the moment I am reading Manja so marked that as green as is a great read and will definitely write a review also have finished The Expendable Man and just have to write the review.

·         1: William – an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton

·         2: Mariana by Monica Dickens

·         3: Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple

·         4: Fidelity by Susan Glaspell

·         5: An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43 by Etty Hillesum

·         6: The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski

·         7: The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

·         8: Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes by Mollie Panter-Downes

·         9: Few Eggs and No Oranges by Vere Hodgson

·         10: Good Things in England by Florence White

·         11: Julian Grenfell by Nicholas Mosley

·         12: It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty by Judith Viorst

·         13: Consequences by E M Delafield

·         14: Farewell Leicester Square by Betty Miller

·         15: Tell It to a Stranger by Elizabeth Berridge

·         16: Saplings by Noel Streatfeild

·         17: Marjory Fleming by Oriel Malet

·         18: Every Eye by Isobel English

·         19: They Knew Mr Knight by Dorothy Whipple

·         20: A Woman’s Place: 1910-75 by Ruth Adam

·         21: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

·         22: Consider the Years by Virginia Graham

·         23: Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy

·         24: Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton

·         25: The Montana Stories by Katherine Mansfield

·         26: Brook Evans by Susan Glaspell

·         27: The Children who Lived in a Barn by Eleanor Graham

·         28: Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski

·         29: The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett

·         30: Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jekyll

·         31: A House in the Country by Jocelyn Playfair

·         32: The Carlyles at Home by Thea Holme

·         33: The Far Cry by Emma Smith

·         34: Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes by Mollie Panter-Downes

·         35: Greenery Street by Denis Mackail

·         36: Lettice Delmer by Susan Miles

·         37: The Runaway by Elizabeth Anna Hart

·         38: Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey

·         39: Manja by Anna Gmeyner

·         40: The Priory by Dorothy Whipple

·         41: Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge

·         42: The Blank Wall by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

·         43: The Wise Virgins by Leonard Woolf

·         44: Tea with Mr Rochester by Frances Towers

·         45: Good Food on the Aga by Ambrose Heath

·         46: Miss Ranskill Comes Home by Barbara Euphan Todd

·         47: The New House by Lettice Cooper

·         48: The Casino by Margaret Bonham

·         49: Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton

·         50: The World that was Ours by Hilda Bernstein

·         51: Operation Heartbreak by Duff Cooper

·         52: The Village by Marghanita Laski

·         53: Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary by Ruby Ferguson

·         54: They Can’t Ration These by Vicomte de Mauduit

·         55: Flush by Virginia Woolf

·         56: They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple

·         57: The Hopkins Manuscript by RC Sherriff

·         58: Hetty Dorval by Ethel Wilson

·         59: There Were No Windows by Norah Hoult

·         60: Doreen by Barbara Noble

·         61: A London Child of the 1870s by Molly Hughes

·         62: How To Run Your Home Without Help by Kay Smallshaw

·         63: Princes in the Land by Joanna Cannan

·         64: The Woman Novelist and Other Stories by Diana Gardner

·         65: Alas, Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson

·         66: Gardener’s Nightcap by Muriel Stuart

·         67: The Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff

·         68: The Expendable Man by Dorothy B Hughes

·         69: Journal by Katherine Mansfield

·         70: Plats du Jour by Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd

·         71: The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

·         72: House-Bound by Winifred Peck

·         73: The Young Pretenders by Edith Henrietta Fowler

·         74: The Closed Door and Other Stories by Dorothy Whipple

·         75: On the Other Side: Letters to my Children from Germany 1940-46 by Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg

·         76: The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby

·         77: Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer

·         78: A Very Great Profession by Nicola Beauman

·         79: Round About a Pound a Week by Maud Pember Reeves

·         80: The Country Housewife’s Book by Lucy H Yates

·         81: Miss Buncle’s Book by DE Stevenson

·         82: Amours de Voyage by Arthur Hugh Clough

·         83: Making Conversation by Christine Longford

·         84: A New System of Domestic Cookery by Mrs Rundell

·         85: High Wages by Dorothy Whipple

·         86: To Bed with Grand Music by Marghanita Laski

·         87: Dimanche and Other Stories by Irène Némirovsky

·         88: Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon

·         89: The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow by Mrs Oliphant

·         90: The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens

·         91: Miss Buncle Married by DE Stevenson

·         92: Midsummer Night in the Workhouse by Diana Athill

·         93: The Sack of Bath by Adam Fergusson

·         94: No Surrender by Constance Maud

·         95: Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple

·         96: Dinners for Beginners by Rachel and Margaret Ryan

·         97: Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins

·         98: A Writer’s Diary by Virginia Woolf

·         99: Patience by John Coates

·         100: The Persephone Book of Short Stories by

·         101: Heat Lightning by Helen Hull

·         102: The Exiles Return by Elisabeth de Waal

·         103: The Squire by Enid Bagnold

·         104: The Two Mrs Abbotts by DE Stevenson

·         105: Diary of a Provincial Lady by E M Delafield

·         106: Into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg

·         107: Wilfred and Eileen by Jonathan Smith

·         108: The Happy Tree by Rosalind Murray

·         109: The Country Life Cookery Book by Ambrose Heath

·         110: Because of the Lockwoods by Dorothy Whipple

·         111: London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes

·         112: Vain Shadow by Jane Hervey

·         113: Greengates by RC Sherriff

·         114: Gardeners’ Choice by Evelyn Dunbar and Charles Mahoney

·         115: Maman, What Are We Called Now? by Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar