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Mariana
by Monica Dickens
£13
Vain Shadow
by Jane Hervey
£13
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
by Julia Strachey
£10
Diary of a Provincial Lady
by E M Delafield
£13
Making Conversation
by Christine Longford
£13
Amours de Voyage
by Arthur Hugh Clough
£13
Miss Buncle’s Book
by DE Stevenson
£13
Miss Buncle Married
by DE Stevenson
£13
House-Bound
by Winifred Peck
£13
The Hopkins Manuscript
by RC Sherriff
£13
Flush
by Virginia Woolf
£13
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
by Julia Strachey
£13
Greenery Street
by Denis Mackail
£13
Patience
by John Coates
£13
Consider the Years
by Virginia Graham
£13
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
by Winifred Watson
£13
It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty
by Judith Viorst
£13
Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes
by Mollie Panter-Downes
£13
Guard Your Daughters
by Diana Tutton
£13

The Persephone Post

A parallel in pictures to the world of Persephone Books every weekday.

11 December 2018

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Cynthia and Herbert (Beb) Asquith were engaged in 1910, a year of political upheaval and constitutional crisis which had begun in November 1909 when the Conservative-dominated House of Lords rejected… Read More »

The Persephone Forum

A forum for Persephone readers where we write about a new book every month.

Persephone Book No. 116: A Lady and Her Husband by Amber Reeves

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‘She had reached the Vauxhall Bridge Road now, and she turned back.’ Mary Heyham’s afternoon walk along Chelsea Embankment ends just across the river from… Read More »

The Persephone Letter

A letter with news and information about the world of Persephone Books.

16 November 2018

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It has been a glorious autumn here in the UK although anyone who lives in the real world, (which we hope we do despite our love of twentieth century women… Read More »

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