The Home-Maker
10 best books like The Home-Maker (Dorothy Canfield Fisher): Little Lord Fauntleroy, Emmeline, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Saplings, Miss Ranskill Comes Home, Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes, The Priory, The Victorian Chaise Longue, Tea with Mr. Rochester, The Fortnight in September
| Author | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| ISBN | 1934169234 |
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885, 1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a beloved children's novel that made a huge impact on the 19th century public, shaping everything from boys' clothing fashions to copyright law. Cedric Errol is a generous, kind, and exemplary middle-class American boy who is suddenly...
| Author | Judith Rossner |
| ISBN | 0385333447 |
The story of Emmeline Mosher, who, before her 14th birthday, was sent from her home on a farm in Maine to support her family by working in a cotton mill in Massachusetts. The year was 1839. An extraordinary novel from the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", the story of a desperate...
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew...
| Author | Noel Streatfeild |
| ISBN | 1903155053 |
Downer! That's not exactly a criticism, but man, if you're used to Streatfeild's kid lit about children learning arts and overcoming personal and economic challenges you will not be expecting this grim account of a family collapsing under the pressures and changes of the second world war. This is one...
| Author | Barbara Bower |
| ISBN | 1903155363 |
Published in 1946, under her married name, Barbara Bower.
Description: Tells the tale of a woman who goes on a cruise and is swept overboard. She lives for three years on a desert island before being rescued by a destroyer in 1943. When she returns to England it seems to her to have gone mad: she...
| Author | Mollie Panter-Downes |
| ISBN | 0953478076 |
For fifty years Mollie Panter-Downes' name was associated with "The New Yorker", for which she wrote a regular 'Letter from London', book reviews and over thirty short stories; of the twenty-one in "Good Evening, Mrs Craven", written between 1939 and 1944, only two had ever been reprinted - these very...
| Author | Dorothy Whipple |
| ISBN | 1903155304 |
The setting for this, the third novel by Dorothy Whipple Persephone have published, is Saunby Priory, a large house somewhere in England which has seen better times. We are shown the two Marwood girls, who are nearly grown-up, their father, the widower Major Marwood, and their aunt; then, as soon as...
| Author | Marghanita Laski |
| ISBN | 0897330978 |
A small, but perfectly formed, chilling tale of psychological horror, from a very simple premise.
The GR summary, in its entirety, says, "Tells the story of a young married woman who lies down on a chaise-longue and wakes to find herself imprisoned in the body of her alter ego ninety...
| Author | Frances Towers |
| ISBN | 1903155347 |
When these captivating and at times bizarre stories were published posthumously in 1949, Angus Wilson wrote: 'It appears no exaggeration to say that Frances Towers's death in 1948 may have robbed us of a figure of more than purely contemporary significance. At first glance one might be disposed to...
The Fortnight in September
| Author | R.C. Sherriff |
| ISBN | 1903155576 |
The Fortnight in September embodies the kind of mundane normality the men in the dug-out longed for – domestic life at 22 Corunna Road in Dulwich, the train journey via Clapham Junction to the south coast, the two weeks living in lodgings and going to the beach every day. The family’s only regret is...
| Author | Dorothy Whipple |
| ISBN | 1903155460 |
I read this massive chunk of a book in two sittings.
Dorothy Whipple is an amazingly understated writer. I am so thankful to Persephone books for re-releasing her work to a wider audience. She writes with wit, candor and seemingly light years ahead of her time. I have only read 2 of her other books but...
