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Good Evening, Mrs. Craven - The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes by Mollie Panter-Downes; Gregory LeStage (Preface by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Persephone Classics Ser.
Includes several short stories that explore different aspects of English domestic life during the war: about separation, sewing parties, fear, evacuees sent to the country, obsession with food, and the social revolutions of wartime.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson; Henrietta Twycross-Martin (Photographer)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Persephone Classics Ser.
Miss Pettigrew is a down-on-her-luck, middle-aged governess sent by an employment agency to work for a nightclub singer rather than a household of unruly children. Over a period of just 24 hours, her life is changed - forever.
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple
$32.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Persephone Classics Ser.
“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 destruction of a marriage. Ellen is “that unfashionable creature, a happy hous ...Show more
The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Persephone Classics Ser.
Part I, the original Marchioness, is in the Cinderella (and Miss Pettigrew) tradition, while Part II, called The Methods of Lady Walderhurst, is an absorbing melodrama; most novels end 'and they lived happily ever after' but this one develops into a realistic commentary on late-Victorian marriage. 'Deli ...Show more
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