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Minnie’s Room by Mollie Panter-Downes

March 22, 2019 by Christina

Fiction – print. Persephone Books, 2002. 125 pgs. Purchased. Subtitled “The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes”, this collection of ten short stories presents the realities and dreams of the British people following the end of the World War II. Each story was originally published for the American publication The New Yorker between the years 1947 and 1965, a follow-up of sorts to her short stories from 1938 to 1944. Those wartime stories were published by Persephone Books in 1999 as Good Evening, […]

Categories: 2019 Reads, Europe, Fiction, Persephone Books, Short Stories, United Kingdom • Tags: Mollie Panter-Downes

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Good Evening, Mrs. Craven by Mollie Panter-Downes

September 18, 2014 by Christina

Fiction — print. Persephone Books, 2008. 200 pgs. Library copy. Panter-Downes served as the London correspondent for The New Yorker during the Second World War writing the “Letter from London” column, book reviews, and over thirty short stories about English domestic life. This collection – the first for Panter-Downes – contains twenty-one of her short stories and spans the years 1938 to 1944. The titular story follows a young woman engaged in an affair with a Mr. Craven – the […]

Categories: 2014 Reads, Europe, Fiction, Persephone Books, United Kingdom • Tags: Mollie Panter-Downes

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