Podcast appearances and mentions of Persephone Books

Broadway star Stephanie J Block performs So In Love from the new production of Kiss Me Kate, at London's Barbican. Tom talks to her and the Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher about creating the musical show within a show, which is based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.The BBC's Culture Editor Katie Razzall on what the political parties have included in – and left out of - their manifestos on the Arts and Culture. We also hear from The Lowry's CEO Julia Fawcett and The Times' Chief Culture Editor Richard Morrison about their thoughts on arts education, tax breaks for filmmakers, Arts Council England and economic regeneration. And in Independent Bookshop Week – we hear from Persephone Books in Bath about 25 years of reprinting the work of neglected women writers, mostly from the mid-twentieth century, with recollections of the early days from publishing pioneer Nicola Beauman.Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Paula McGrath

Do otimismo da fé em ação de Helen Keller à fé inabalável de Etty Hillesum, passando pela devoção ao pensamento de Ana Comnena e pela inquietação intelectual de Cristina da Suécia, eis mulheres cujo espírito se entregou ao que de mais verdadeiro sentiam. Saber mais: Pontapé de saída: camisola do «Abril Futebol Clube» by Carlos Vieira Reis e www.camisa14.com.br Hellen Keller Fotos: https://www.neh.gov/project/digitization-helen-keller-archival-collection https://www.wnyc.org/story/eleanor-roosevelt-wishes-helen-keller-well/ Autobiographies and other Writings, The Story of My Life, The World I Live in, Essays, Speeches, Letters, and Journals, edição de Kim E. Nielsen, The Library of Congress, Nova Iorque, 2024. Etty Hillesum Fotos: https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hillesum-etty An Interrupted Life: the Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43, Prefácio de Eva Hoffman, Persephone Books, Bath, edição de 2023. Diário, 1941-1943, edição Assírio e Alvim Cartas, 1941-1943, edição Assírio e Alvim Jewish Women's Archive: https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/hillesum-etty The Paris Review: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/04/04/feminize-your-canon-etty-hillesum/ Rainha Cristina da Suécia Foto da Encyclopaedia Britannica Greta Garbo https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/queen_christina Quadro de Adrienne Marie Louise Grandpierre-Deverzy (1798-1869) de 1824 https://www.chateaudefontainebleau.fr/en/collection-et-ressources/les-collections/paintings/christina-queen-of-sweden-has-her-equerry-monaldechi-killed/ Encyclopaedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christina-queen-of-Sweden The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/books/review/christina-queen-of-sweden-a-royal-mess.html BBC News Brasil: https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/internacional-45252893 The Collector: https://www.thecollector.com/who-was-queen-christina-of-sweden/ Anna Comnena e a sua Alexíada de meados do século XII Mapa do Império Bizantino da Encyclopaedia Britannica Foto: https://hagiasophiaturkey.com/mosaic-john-komnenos-eirene-alexios/ Capa do Livro da Leonora Neville disponível no site da Amazon Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads, A New History of the World, Bloomsbury, Londres, 2015 Leonora Neville, Anna Komnene, the Life and Work of a Medieval Historian, Oxford University Press, Nova Iorque, 2016. Anna Comnena, The Alexiad, tradução de Elizabeth A. S. Dawes. Masterworks Classics/Stonewell Press, Salt Lake City, edição de 2015.

Today we have a special guest who we think will be of particular interest, especially to aspiring writers. Kit Nevile is a Commissioning Editor at publishers Canelo. He is particularly interested in thrillers, horror, and action/adventure books, and just so happens to be Steven's editor! Before working at Canelo he was at Persephone Books and Whitefox publishing services, both in an editorial role. In this episode we will try to find out what a commissioning editor actually does, what they look for in a new book, how he thinks the publishing business will change in coming years, how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact things, and lots more! Welcome to RPS, Kit Nevile! https://www.canelo.co/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RockPaperSwordsPodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RockPaperSwordsPodcast  X: x.com/rock_swords

Rejected by her usual publisher, Farewell Leicester Square is a novel by Betty Miller, written in 1935, exploring antisemitism, Jewishness and "marrying out". Marghanita Laski may now be best known for her contributions to broadcasting on programmes like The Brains Trust but was also a published author of many stories including The Victorian Chaise-Longue and Little Boy Lost. Both writers have now been republished by Persephone Books. Matthew Sweet's guests are the novelist Howard Jacobson, the academic Lisa Mullen and the author Lara Feigel. They explore the writers' lives and why they both abandoned writing fiction to focus on literary biographies. At the end of the discussion Howard Jacobson tells listeners “I very rarely hear people describing a novel that makes me want to read it - in fact if there is any listener out there who now does not want to read Marghanita Laski they are heartless.” Producer: Fiona McLean Betty Miller published 7 novels including Farewell Leicester Square and On the Side of the Angels (1945) and a biography of Robert Browning (1952). Marghanita Laski's books include To Bed with Grand Music (1946), Tory Heaven (1948), Little Boy Lost (1949), The Village (1952) and The Victorian Chaise-longue (1953), biographies of Jane Austen and George Eliot . She was also a prolific contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). On the Free Thinking programme website you can find a collection of episodes exploring prose, poetry and drama including previous discussions featuring Howard Jacobson, Lara Feigel and Lisa Mullen

Welcome to Season 4!!! Jamie and Merion kick things off with all things bookish in this episode where we meet Anna Nikipirowicz, indie designer, author and multi crafter extraordinaire! You can find Anna online at www.moochka.co.uk and on instagram and Facebook.  Anna's brilliant books Embroidered Crochet and Tunisian Crochet Stitch Dictionary are both available from Search Press and all good bookshops. In their chummy preamble, Jamie was talking about Erasure by Percival Everett and Merion was talking about Persephone Books, in particular The Enchanted April and Expiation by Elizabeth Von Arnim. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts for more chat about love, crafts and everything in-between!You can email us at show@lovecrafts.com to share your crafting stories, guest recommendations or just your favourite flap jack recipes - we'd love to hear from you!(ps - please please leave us a review wherever you can, so that we can keep making happy pods that you love!)Happy crafting!

Charlie and Natalie Jenner (Bloomsbury Girls) discuss Jane Austen in all Natalie's interesting concepts, tales of related auctions she has been involved in, and the work to 'preserve and pull together' a record of the books that inspired her. They also discuss Natalie's inclusion of Daphne du Maurier in her novel, Persephone Books, and genre in its context as a label. Please note that there are (very slight) spoilers throughout the episode. Some podcast apps do not show description links properly unless the listener subscribes to the podcast. If you can't click the links below and don't wish to subscribe, copy and paste the following address into your browser to access the episode's page on my blog: http://wormhole.carnelianvalley.com/podcast/episode-65-natalie-jenner Persephone Books 84 Charing Cross Road (film) Sunwise Turn Madge Jemisin's memoir Lamb's Conduit Street The Second Shelf Bookshop, London Daphne du Maurier's Myself When Young: The Makings Of A Writer Emily Midorikawa: Daphne du Maurier and Oriel Malet Daphne du Maurier's The Doll Sonia Orwell Jane Wells Webb The Mummy! The Godmersham Lost Sheep Society's blog Reading With Austen McGill's Burney Centre Sample and Audible edition of Richard Armitage's narration of The Jane Austen Society Sample and Audible edition Juliet Stevenson's narration of Bloomsbury Girls Natalie's favourite Persephone book is Julia Strachey's Cheerful Weather For The Wedding Question Index 01:14 You owned a book shop. Tell us about it 05:40 You are obviously very interested in classical writers, Jane Austen in particular. Can you tell us where your inspiration stems from? 14:37 [Reading] 19:55 How much are the Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls related - can Bloomsbury Girls be a standalone? 21:09 Can you talk about three of your inspirations for Bloomsbury Girls - the book 84 Charing Cross Road, and the bookshops Sunwise Turn and Persephone Books? 26:17 Why as it important to you to include Daphne du Maurier? 32:51 Why Jane Wells Webb - why The Mummy, why include this author in particular? 37:20 You have auctions of books in your novel. Are auctions something that interests you and were there real life ones that inspired you? 41:40 You've mentioned genre a couple of times. Can you expand on your thoughts here? 45:51 What's next? 47:59 (Natalie talks about the British audiobook editions of her novels) Purchase Links The Jane Austen Society: Amazon UK Amazon US Amazon Canada Waterstones Hive Barnes & Noble IndieBound Indigo Chapters Bloomsbury Girls: Amazon UK Amazon US Amazon Canada Waterstones Hive Barnes & Noble IndieBound Indigo Chapters I am an IndieBound affiliate and earn a small commission on qualifying purchases. Photograph used with the permission of the author.

Publisher: Francesca Beauman, Persephone Books by Spiracle Audiobooks

Book recommendations galore from author Francesca Beauman, who is also publisher and bookshop proprietor of Persephone Books. In her latest book, The Literaray Almanac, Francesca aims to guide readers in choosing books that chime with moments in the year – from hopeful books to read in March to school curriculum classics not-nearly-as-boring-as-you-remember them in September. We also explore the delights of the Persephone publishing list with old favourites and some exciting new titles. So listen in and share in the joy of giving ourselves permission to say when we don't like something, and turn instead to something we will love. Enjoy. Booklist The Pineapple, King of Fruits and Matrimony, Inc., by Francesca Beauman The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi Ulysses by James Joyce The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu  As It Was by Helen Thomas A Well Full of Leaves by Elizabeth Myers The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield Normal People by Sally Rooney Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Notes Find out more about Francesca at her website francescabeauman.com, or head on over to persephonebooks.co.uk for a browse. Follow us on Instagram or Facebook @BookClubReview podcast, on Twitter @bookclubrvwpod or email us thebookclubreview@gmail.com and let us know what you're reading – we love to hear from you.  Subscribe to us to be sure you never miss an episode, and if you like what we do please rate and review the show, it helps other listeners find us and we are eternally grateful.

Lost Ladies of Lit launches with a conversation on Mariana, the first novel by Monica Dickens (May 10, 1915 – December 25, 1992), the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. First published in 1940, and gorgeously reprinted by our favorite UK publisher Persephone Books, Mariana is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel of the “hot water bottle genre” set in the 1930s. In addition to discussing their appreciation for Mariana, Amy and Kim delve into the life of the author, who was a popular novelist in her day. They also play “casting directors” for an imaginary film adaptation of the book and chat about what else they’re reading in the midst of a global pandemic.

Ciągle jeszcze możemy cieszyć się pięknym polskim latem, dlatego postanowiłyśmy przybliżyć Wam motywy, które bardzo lubimy i które wyjątkowo kojarzą nam się z wakacjami. Co ciekawe, dla Payi jest to właśnie kończące się lato, ostatnie ciepłe dni z chłodnymi wieczorami, za to Ela najchętniej na wakacjach czytałaby o morzu, które stopniowo odkrywa przed czytelniczką swoje piękne i mroczne strony. Książki, o których rozmawiamy w podkaście, to: Banana Yoshimoto, „Tsugumi”, tłum. Gabriela Rzepecka, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy; RC Sherriff, „The Fortnight in September”, Persephone Books; Jón Kalman Stefánsson, „Niebo i piekło”, tłum. Przemysław Czarnecki, wydawnictwo W.A.B.; Nathaniel Philbrick, „W samym sercu morza”, tłum. Monika I. Betley, wydawnictwo HarperCollins Polska. Zachęcamy do odwiedzin na naszym profilu na Instagramie: https://www.instagram.com/juz_tlumacze i na FB https://www.facebook.com/juz.tlumacze Intro: http://bit.ly/jennush

Louise and Virginia have a great conversation about four excellent British novels, The Cockroach by Ian McEwan, The Confession by Jessie Burton, Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple and To Calais, in Ordinary Time by James Meek. They also discuss a couple of great podcasts and a feel-good movie.Email hello@divinginpodcast.comInstagram @diving_in_podcastVirginia’s Instagram @virginia_readsLouise’s Instagram @louise_cooks_and_readsSong ‘Diving In’ – original music and lyrics written and performed by Laura Adeline – https://linkt.ree/llauraadelinePodcast sound production and editing by Andy Maher.The Cockroach by Ian McEwan, 2019. Published by Jonothan Cape,The Confession by Jessie Burton, 2019. Published by PicadorSomeone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple, 1999. Published by Persephone Books.To Calais, in Ordinary Time by James Meek, 2019. Published by Canongate Bookswww.persephonebooks.co.ukPodcastsHow to Fail with Elizabeth DayWhere Should we Begin? with Esther PerelJessie Burton’s website: https://www.jessieburton.co.uk/FilmFishermen’s FriendsNetflix TV seriesThe Crown – Series 3

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Gail, Hazel, Anna and Donna Coonan of Virago Modern Classics gather round the table to talk about giving new life to forgotten voices, and Helen Bourne heads for the Pyramids with a young Priscilla Napier. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 33 minutes; 31 seconds) **Books Mentioned** • [Slightly Foxed Issue 61](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-61-1-march-2019/) (2:02) • Priscilla Napier, [A Late Beginner](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/a-late-beginner/) (4:41) • L. M. Montgomery, [Anne of Green Gables](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/l-m-montgomery-anne-of-green-gables/) (12:00) • [Noel Streatfeild’s Christmas Stories](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/noel-streatfeild-christmas-stories/) (12:47) • The Slightly Foxed Edition Gail refers to is [Sword of Bone](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/sword-of-bone/), Anthony Rhodes’s memoir of his experiences of WWII and being evacuated from Dunkirk (15:28) • Marjorie Hillis, [Live Alone and Like It](https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781844081257), is available through Little, Brown Book Group (16:00)(16:00) • Winifred Watson, [Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day](http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/miss-pettigrew-lives-for-a-day.html), is available from Persephone Books (18:40) • Eric Newby, [Love and War in the Apennines](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/eric-newby-love-and-war/) (23:26) • Mary Hocking’s trilogy of titles, Good Daughters, Indifferent Heroes and Welcome Strangers, are out of print, but we may be able to get hold of second-hand copies. Please [get in touch](https://foxedquarterly.com/help/) for details (29:03) • Graham Swift, [Mothering Sunday](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/graham-swift-mothering-sunday/) (29:37) • Sigrid Nunez, [The Friend](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/sigrid-nunez-the-friend/) (30:06) • Amor Towles, [A Gentleman in Moscow](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/amor-towles-a-gentleman-in-moscow/) (30:48) **Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations** • [Rowena Macdonald’s article](https://foxedquarterly.com/philip-hensher-rowena-macdonald-literary-review/) on Philip Hensher’s Kitchen Venom was published in Slightly Foxed Issue 61 (2:18) • [Extract from Priscilla Napier’s memoir, A Late Beginner](https://foxedquarterly.com/priscilla-napier-late-beginner-extract/), read by Helen Bourne (23:54) • [Penelope Lively’s preface to A Late Beginner](https://foxedquarterly.com/penelope-lively-preface-late-beginner-priscilla-napier/) was also published as an article in [Slightly Foxed Issue 21](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-21/) **Other Links** • The second-hand bookshop in Canada is called Reasons to Live Books & Records. A full list of Slightly Foxed stockists can be found on our website: [Stockists](https://foxedquarterly.com/category/stockists/) (0:40) • [The Slightly Foxed Subscribers’ Competition 2019](https://foxedquarterly.com/slightly-foxed-writing-competition-2019/) (3:20) • The Slightly Foxed [Spring 2019 Readers’ Catalogue](https://foxedquarterly.com/products/readers-catalogue/) is available to view and download (3:46) • [The Faber Stories series](https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/faber-90th-anniversary/) was launched as part of Faber’s 90th anniversary publishing programme (3:52) • [Virago Modern Classics](https://www.virago.co.uk/books/virago-modern-classics/) (6:31) • [Virago Children’s Classics](https://www.virago.co.uk/virago-modern-classics-books-children/) (11:35) • [Persephone Books](https://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/) (18:27) • For subscriptions to Slightly Foxed magazine, and all our available publications, visit [www.foxedquarterly.com](https://foxedquarterly.com/) (33:05) **Music & Sound Effects** Reading: introductory music Elgar’s Salut D’Amour by James Langevin. Incidental music and sound effects courtesy of [www.freeso...

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Despite her being dubbed as ‘Jane Austen of the 20th century’ by JB Priestly, Dorothy Whipple’s fame for her popular interwar domestic romance, ironically, did not last like her literary precursor until the recent republication by Persephone Books. Whipple wrote not only the courtship and the romance tale, but the post-matrimony story such as extramarital affair, divorce, and domestic violence with a profound understanding of the importance of women’s education and profession. Studying her novels as the cultural products of the middle-class and from the interwar period, a topoanalytical reading of Whipple’s domestic images finds that they represent home as a contested site to the women’s heterosexual identity, desire, and economic conundrum, and reveals the history of heterosexual femininity not as a steady and voiceless conformity to the patriarchal hegemony, but a constantly reforming effort to improve and undermine the traditional heterosexual structure in the patriarchal design of suppressive spatial division, in which home is considered as a socially and economically rightful realm for women to reside and to identify their gender with. By reading her novels following the proposed method, the researcher aims to show how Whipple’s domestic romance about the quiet disquiet from the middle ground and the mid-century deserves to be reinstalled in the feminist literary canon and protected from oblivion and neglect. Pimpawan holds an MA in English Language & Literature from Thammasat University Thailand and an MA in Contemporary Literature from the University of Liverpool. She started her PhD in English in 2016 at the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen. Her current research interests include spatial turn in literary theory, women’s literary history, women and romance writing, gendered space, and domesticity in women’s novel.

Summary:   "Uncomfortably funny." This week Andrea and Lisa talk about the genre-bending genius of Sorry To Bother You and how it is a film that manages to speak to everyone. Also discussed: Don DeLillo, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and working in telemarketing.   Show notes:   White Noise by Don DeLillo   Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham   Persephone Books   Sorry To Bother You trailer   "The Message" by the Coup (Boots Riley)   Norma Rae trailer   Game Night trailer   Idiocracy trailer     Recommendations:   Andrea: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime) Lisa: "Shine on with Reese" (TV)   Music credits: "Back to the '90s" by Douglas Mulvey aka D-REX From Free Music Archive CC BY 4.0 Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop This! on Instagram Logo design by Samantha Smith Pop This! is two women talking about pop culture. Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist. Press play and come hang out with your two new best friends. Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin and recorded at the Vancouver Public Library's wonderful Inspiration Lab.