Books from Persephone Books
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Julian Grenfell: His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888-1915
By Nicholas MosleyA biography of the First World War poet Julian Grenfell.
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The Making of a Marchioness
By Frances Hodgson Burnett, Isabel Raphael, Gretchen GerzinaFrances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) grew up in Manchester. In 1886, Little Lord Fauntleroy was a huge popular success; from then on Burnett wrote for both children and adults.
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A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf
By Virginia Woolf, Lyndall Gordon2012 Reprint of 1953 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.
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A Woman's Place, 1910-1975
By Ruth AdamProvides an overview of 20th century women's lives, covering what the reader want to know about the suffragettes, early 'type-writers', contraception, and work in wartime; and it complements Persephone's other books by exploring factually ...
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Someone at a Distance
By Dorothy Whipple“A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love.”—The Spectator Written in 1953, the last book by best-selling novelist Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance is a quietly gripping story about the ...
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The Other Elizabeth Taylor
By Nicola BeaumanThis is the first biography of one of the greatest English writers of the last century. Betty Coles became Elizabeth Taylor upon her marriage in 1936. Her first novel At...
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The Woman Novelist and Other Stories
By Diana GardnerThe Woman Novelist and Other Stories
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Operation Heartbreak
By Max Arthur, Duff CooperOperation Heartbreak
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Hostages to Fortune
By Elizabeth CambridgeHostages to Fortune
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A House in the Country
By Jocelyn PlayfairThe great interest of Jocelyn Playfair's book for modern readers is its complete authenticity. Set sixty years ago at the time of the fall of Tobruk in 1942, one of...
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Patience
By John CoatesA lightly handled story of sex, marriage and Catholicism maintains a gay innocence as Patience Gathorne-Galley wakens to her unused potentialities.
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Saplings
By Noel Streatfeild"First published in 1945 by Collins"--Copyright page.
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Few Eggs and No Oranges: A Diary Showing how Unimportant People in London and Birmingham Lived Throughout the War Years...
By Vere HodgsonA look at how 'ordinary' people in London and Birmingham lived, worked and coped during World War II, through the diary of an "ordinary commonplace Londoner."
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Plats Du Jour
By Patience Gray, Primrose BoydPlats Du Jour
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The World that was Ours
By Hilda BernsteinAn intimate memoir about the 1964 Rivonia Trial in South Africa during Apartheid.
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Manja: A Novel about Five Children
By Anna GmeynerManja: A Novel about Five Children
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The Village
By Marghanita LaskiThe Village
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Mariana
By Monica DickensA 1930s Bridget Jones who is waiting, often desperately, for the right man
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Mariana
By Monica DickensThis novel by the great granddaughter of Charles Dickens was a bestseller when it was originally published in 1940. "Mariana" is the often-comical story of a typical English girl growing...
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Good Evening Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
By Mollie Panter-DownesOriginally published in The New Yorker, Mollie Panter-Downes was the voice of England during the Second World War.