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Persephone Books
''Persephone Books'' is an independent publisher based in Bath, England. Founded in 1999 by Nicola Beauman, Persephone Books reprints works largely by women writers of the late 19th and 20th century, though a few books by men are included. The catalogue includes fiction (novels and short stories) and non-fiction (diaries, memoirs and cookery books). Most books have a grey dustjacket and endpaper using a contemporaneous design, with a matching bookmark. The company sells books mostly through its website, but also maintains a shop in Bath. History Persephone Books was founded as a mail-order publisher in the spring of 1999 by writer Nicola Beauman, after she received a small inheritance from her father. Beauman named the company Persephone after the Greek goddess connected with spring who is "both 'victim and mistress'". Beauman wanted to upend the devaluing of women writers in literary culture and to restore previously lost works to the canon. She was inspired by Virago Press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone ( ; gr, Περσεφόνη, Persephónē), also called Kore or Cora ( ; gr, Κόρη, Kórē, the maiden), is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She became the queen of the underworld after her abduction by and marriage to her uncle Hades, the king of the underworld.Martin Nilsson (1967). ''Die Geschichte der Griechische Religion'' Vol I pp 462–463, 479–480 The myth of her abduction, her sojourn in the underworld, and her temporary return to the surface represents her functions as the embodiment of spring and the personification of vegetation, especially grain crops, which disappear into the earth when sown, sprout from the earth in spring, and are harvested when fully grown. In Classical Greek art, Persephone is invariably portrayed robed, often carrying a sheaf of grain. She may appear as a mystical divinity with a sceptre and a little box, but she was mostly represented in the process of being carried off by Hades. Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baskerville
Baskerville is a serif typeface designed in the 1750s by John Baskerville (1706–1775) in Birmingham, England, and cut into metal by punchcutter John Handy. Baskerville is classified as a Serif#Transitional, transitional typeface, intended as a refinement of what are now called Serif#Old-style, old-style typefaces of the period, especially those of his most eminent contemporary, William Caslon. Compared to earlier designs popular in Britain, Baskerville increased the contrast between thick and thin strokes, making the serifs sharper and more tapered, and shifted the axis of rounded letters to a more vertical position. The curved strokes are more circular in shape, and the characters became more regular. These changes created a greater consistency in size and form, influenced by the calligraphy Baskerville had learned and taught as a young man. Baskerville's typefaces remain very popular in book design and there are many modern revivals, which often add features such as bold type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Dickens
Monica Enid Dickens, MBE (10 May 1915 – 25 December 1992) was an English writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Biography Known as "Monty" to her family and friends, she was born into an upper-middle-class London family to Henry Charles Dickens (1878–1966), a barrister, and Fanny Dickens (née Runge). She was the granddaughter of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens KC. Disillusioned with the world she was brought up in – she was expelled from St Paul's Girls' School in London for throwing her school uniform into the Thames before she was presented at court as a debutante – she decided to go into domestic service despite coming from the privileged class; her experiences as a cook and general servant would form the nucleus of her first book, ''One Pair of Hands'' in 1939. ''One Pair of Feet'' (1942) recounted her work as a nurse, and subsequently she worked in an aircraft factory and on the ''Hertfordshire Express'' – a local newspaper in Hitchin; her experiences i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cicely Hamilton
Cicely Mary Hamilton (née Hammill; 15 June 1872 – 6 December 1952), was an English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist and feminist, part of the struggle for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She is now best known for the feminist play ''How the Vote was Won'', which sees a male anti-suffragist change his mind when the women in his life go on strike.Lisa Shariari, "Hamilton, Cicely" in Faye Hammill, Ashlie Sponenberg and Esme Miskimmin (ed.), ''Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing, 1900-1950''. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. (pp. 105-6) She was also the author of one of the most frequently performed suffrage plays, ''A Pageant of Great Women'' (1909), which featured the character of Jane Austen as one of its "Learned Women." Biography Born in 1872, Cicely Hammill in Paddington, London, she was the eldest of the four children of Maude Mary and Denzil Hammil. She was educated in Malvern, Worcestershire and in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe. Hammill was raised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Huntington
Gladys Huntington (1887 – 1959), née Parrish, was an American writer. Huntington's works include the novel ''Carfrae's Comedy'', the play ''Barton's Folly'', and the bestselling book ''Madame Solario''. Biography Huntington was born Gladys Theodora Parrish in Philadelphia to a Quaker family on December 13, 1887. Her parents were Alfred Parrish and Katharine Broadwood Jennings. From a young age, she lived in New York, Paris, London, Biarritz, Rome, and "a villa on Lake Como." She married Boston native Constant Davis Huntington on October 17, 1916. The two moved to London where Constant opened Putnam's London office. The two resided in Hyde Park Gardens and then at Amberley House in Sussex, where they remained until her death. On May 31, 1959, three years after the publication of ''Madame Solario'', Huntington committed suicide. Writing Huntington published two novels, a play, and two short stories in ''The New Yorker''. She is best known for ''Madame Solario''. The nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Whipple
Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup) (26 February 1893 – 14 September 1966) was an English writer of popular fiction and children's books. Her work gained popularity between the world wars and again in the 2000s. Personal life Dorothy Stirrup was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, and had a happy childhood as one of several children of a local architect. Her close friend George Owen having been killed in the first week of the war, she worked for three years as the secretary to Henry Whipple, a widowed educational administrator 24 years her senior. She married him in 1917. Their life together was mostly spent in Nottingham. She returned to Blackburn after his death in 1958 and died there in 1966. Overview Described as the "Jane Austen of the 20th Century" by J. B. Priestley, her work enjoyed a period of great popularity between the wars, two of her novels being made into feature films, ''They Were Sisters'' (1945) and '' They Knew Mr. Knight'' ( 1946). While the popularity of Whipple's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Bonham
Margaret Bonham (1913–1991) was a British short-story writer born in London. Bonham's works include the short story "The English Lesson" and the books ''The Casino'' (1948) and ''The House Across the River'' (1951). Biography Bonham attended Wimbledon High School in London growing up, but would go on to spend most of her lifetime in the countryside. Bonham was married three times. Her first marriage, to Walter Griffith, ended "disastrously" when she was "very young". Her second marriage was to Deryck Bazalgette, the great-grandson of Sir Joseph Bazalgette. The two met when they both attended the Peace Pledge Union, a pacifist, anti-war organization and as conscientious objectors established a commune in Devon. Bonham gave birth to two children, Cary and Charles. They divorced after the Second World War. After her divorce from Bazalgette, she married Sir Charles Kimber, 3rd Baronet, another conscientious objector who ran a Devon market garden. Bonham and Kimber met when the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Anna Hart
Elizabeth Anna Hart, née Smedley (1822–1890), was a British poet and novelist born in London. She was a cousin of Lewis Carroll's through her aunt, Lucy Dodgson née Hume, who was Carroll's grandmother. Hart wrote children's poetry with her sister Menella Bute Smedley as well as novels, including ''Mrs. Jerningham's Journal'' and ''The Runaway''. Biography Hart was born in 1822 to Mary Hume Smedley and Rev. Edward Smedley, a clergyman, critic, and poet. She married Thomas Barnard Hart, brother of Sir Andrew Hart, and a cousin of hers through his mother Maria Hume, an officer in the Indian Army, and had no children. Writing Wood-engraver Gwen Raverat was a fan of Hart's 1872 novel ''The Runaway'', which the artist described as "a gay, rather farcical book, which was the delight of my own childhood (and I supposed of the generation before as well) and has been very much loved by my own children, and by many others". Raverat asked publishing house Macmillan to publish an editio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth De Waal
Elisabeth de Waal (1899–1991), née von Ephrussi, was an Austrian writer born in Vienna. de Waal's works include ''The Exiles Return''. Biography de Waal, born Elisabeth von Ephrussi, was a member of the Ephrussi family, the eldest child of Viktor von Ephrussi and Baroness Emmy Schey von Koromla. de Waal studied philosophy, law, and economics at the University of Vienna and completed her doctorate in 1923. de Waal was a poet and corresponded with Rainer Maria Rilke about poetry. She also exchanged letters with philosopher Eric Voegelin, both of them having been Rockefeller Foundation fellows at Columbia University. After marrying Hendrik de Waal in 1939, she lived in Paris and Switzerland before settling down in Tunbridge Wells. Writing de Waal wrote five novels in her lifetime, "two in German and three in English." The only one published was ''The Exiles Return'' which was released posthumously when her grandson, the artist and writer Edmund de Waal, brought it to the atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Noble 1
Barbara may refer to: People * Barbara (given name) * Barbara (painter) (1915–2002), pseudonym of Olga Biglieri, Italian futurist painter * Barbara (singer) (1930–1997), French singer * Barbara Popović (born 2000), also known mononymously as Barbara, Macedonian singer * Bárbara (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer Film and television * ''Barbara'' (1961 film), a West German film * ''Bárbara'' (film), a 1980 Argentine film * ''Barbara'' (1997 film), a Danish film directed by Nils Malmros, based on Jacobsen's novel * ''Barbara'' (2012 film), a German film * ''Barbara'' (2017 film), a French film * ''Barbara'' (TV series), a British sitcom Places * Barbara (Paris Métro), a metro station in Montrouge and Bagneux, France * Barbaria (region), or al-Barbara, an ancient region in Northeast Africa * Barbara, Arkansas, U.S. * Barbara, Gaza, a former Palestinian village near Gaza * Barbara, Marche, a town in Italy * Berbara, or al-Barbara, Lebanon * Berbara, Akkar D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middlebrow
The term middlebrow describes easily accessible art, usually literature, and the people who use the arts to acquire culture and "class" (Reputation, social prestige). First used in the British satire magazine ''Punch (magazine), Punch'' in 1925, the term ''middlebrow'' is the intermediary "brow" descriptor between ''highbrow'' and ''Low culture, lowbrow'', which are terms derived from the pseudoscience of phrenology. Modernism The term middlebrow became a pejorative usage in the Modernism, modernist cultural criticism, by Dwight Macdonald, Virginia Woolf, and Russell Lynes, which served the cause of the marginalisation of the popular culture in favour of high culture. Culturally, the middlebrow is classed as a forced and ineffective attempt at cultural and intellectual achievement, and as characterizing literature that emphasises emotional and sentimental connections, rather than intellectual quality and literary innovation; although postmodernism more readily perceives the advanta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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