1940s
1950s
20th Century Writers
A Different Sound
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Acclaimed Favourites
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Anthology
Attia Hossain
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Birds
Blitz
British Raj
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classic short stories
Classics
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Cornwall
Daphne du Maurier
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Diana Gardner
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylot
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essential women writers
Female Independence
female short story writers
Feminist Writing
Flood
Frances Bellerby
Hitchcock
Horizon
Inez Holden
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Listen to the Magnolias
Listener
Lucy Scholes
Mid-Century Women Writers
New Yorker
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Penelope Mortimer
Phoenix Fled
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Rebecca
Rediscovered
rediscovered writers
Saturday Lunch With the Brownings
Scorched Earth Policy
Short Fiction
Short Stories
Social Channel
softlaunch
Stella Gibbons
Strand Magazine
Summer Night
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Thames
The Birds
The Cut Finger
The First Party
The Land Girl
The Skylight
The Thames Spread Out
Three Miles Up
Timeless Stories
Undiscovered Gems
Wartime
Wartime Anxieties
WWII writing
You'll Enjoy It When You Get Here
Product details
- ISBN 9781782278474
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2023
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, domestic arrangements are rewritten, social customs are revoked and new freedoms are embraced.
Selected and introduced by writer and critic Lucy Scholes, this collection places works from renowned women writers alongside recently rediscovered voices. Suffused with tension and longing, they form a window onto a remarkable era of writing.
Contains: 'The Cut Finger' by Frances Bellerby, 'Summer Night' by Elizabeth Bowen, 'The Birds' by Daphne du Maurier, 'The Land Girl' by Diana Gardner, 'Listen to the Magnolias' by Stella Gibbons, 'Shocking Weather, Isn't It?' by Inez Holden, 'The First Party' by Attia Hosain, 'Three Miles Up' by Elizabeth Jane Howard, 'The Skylight' by Penelope Mortimer, 'The Thames Spread Out' by Elizabeth Taylor and 'Scorched Earth Policy' by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lucy Scholes is Senior Editor at McNally Editions, a series of paperbacks devoted to hidden gems. She hosts OurShelves, a podcast from the legendary feminist publishing house Virago, and wrote 'Re-Covered', a column for the Paris Review about out-of-print and forgotten books that shouldn't be.
