The Gentle Art of Domesticity (Issue 02 - Autumn and Winter 2007)

David Kynaston (Issue 02 - Autumn and Winter 2007)

Norah Hoult short story (Issue 01 - Spring and Summer 2007)

The Black Cap (Issue 32 - Winter 2006)

Holiday Group (Issue 31 - Autumn 2006)

The Red Baize Door (Issue 30 - Summer 2006)

The Woman Novelist (Issue 29 - Spring 2006)

Good Evening, Mrs Craven (Issue 28 - Winter 2005)

The Photograph (Issue 27 - Autumn 2005)

Is The Earth Finished? (Issue 26 - Summer 2005)

Wednesday by Dorothy Whipple (Issue 25 - Spring 2005)

Persephone and the OUP DNB (Issue 24 - Winter 2004)

The Second Persephone Readers Weekend (Issue 24 - Winter 2004)

Room 226 by Hilda Bernstein (Issue 23 - Autumn 2004)

The House At Hove (Issue 22 - Summer 2004)

The English Lesson (Issue 21 - Spring 2004)

Weekend at Newnham (Issue 20 - Winter 2003)

Charlotte Graves-Taylor writes about Tea with Mr Rochester (Issue 20 - Winter 2003)

Votes for Women (Issue 20 - Winter 2003)

Blanche Ridge reflects on Saplings by Noel Streatfeild (Issue 19 - Autumn 2003)

Winifred Watson, the author of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, died on 5 August 2002 aged 95.

'We have been warned regularly, for almost a century now, that the Death of the Novel is nigh. This dire prediction has always been confounded but now, for the first time, something seems different. .'

Robert McCrum in the Observer called this 'an entertaining and passionate lament for what Myers sees as the parlous state of contemporary American literary writing'.

'...Pevsner wrote that this is a 'lively local shopping street, a rarity now in inner London'; we have a newsagent, doctor, dentist, greengrocer, the funeral parlour that 'did' Nelson in 1805...'

1) Persephone Books arose out of thirty years of being at home with small children: so much time to to rediscover twentieth century women writers; and to buy books for 20p, or go to the London Library and come home with an armful of forgotten books.

'...The truth is that the modern novels I read with real, deep pleasure are almost all written by women.'

Jenny Hartley, who wrote the Persephone Preface to Few Eggs and No Oranges, has written Reading Groups (OUP £5.99). In order to assemble the material for the book she and her colleague Sarah Turvey sent questionnaires to 350 groups. Here are some of their responses, prefaced by Jenny Hartley's comments:

At the end of the year Charlie Lee-Potter of Radio 4 chose, as one of her two books of the year, Elizabeth Berridge's Tell it to a Stranger.

Oriel Malet, author of Marjory Fleming, met the novelist and biographer Margaret Forster when the latter was writing her biography of Daphne du Maurier, one of Oriel's closest friends.

As Ruth Adams shows in A Woman's Place, the First World War irrevocably changed women's lives, partly because of the opportunity it gave them for paid work...

Her review of Marjory Fleming by Oriel Malet appeared in the Tatler on 12 June.

Extract from the Persephone Preface by the psychiatrist Dr Jeremy Holmes.

We of course hope that readers of the Persephone Quarterly have read all our books! But for those who have not...

Pat Jaffé, the author of Women Engravers (1990), wrote this article especially
for The Persephone Quarterly.

Novelist Penelope Lively recalls what first intrigued her about Marghanita Laski's novel and explains why she thinks it is still such a powerful book nearly fifty years later.

This article by Nicci Gerrard (one half of Nicci French), first published in The Observer on 27 September 1998, explores the differences between the books read by men and by women.