Persephone Books
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| Founded | 1999 |
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| Founder | Nicola Beauman |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | 59 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1N 3NB, U.K. |
| Publication types | Neglected fiction and non-fiction by mid-twentieth century (mostly) women writers |
| Official website |
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Persephone Books is an independent publisher based in Bloomsbury, London. Founded in 1999 by Nicola Beauman, Persephone Books reprints neglected fiction and non-fiction by mid-twentieth century (mostly) women writers. Their collection of 112 books includes novels, short stories, diaries, memoirs and cookery books. Each has an elegant grey cover and a ‘fabric’ endpaper with matching bookmark. They sell their books mostly through their website but also have a shop on Lamb's Conduit Street in London..
Authors
Authors published by Persephone Books include:
- Dorothy Whipple
- Cicely Hamilton
- Monica Dickens
- Susan Glaspell
- Etty Hillesum
- Marghanita Laski
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Mollie Panter-Downes
- Vere Hodgson
- Florence White
- Judith Viorst
- E. M. Delafield
- Betty Miller
- Elizabeth Berridge
- Noel Streatfield
- Oriel Malet
- Isobel English
- Ruth Adam
- Winifred Watson
- Virginia Graham
- Amy Levy
- Richmal Crompton
- Katherine Mansfield
- Eleanor Graham
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Agnes Jekyll
- Jocelyn Playfair
- Thea Holme
- Emma Smith
- Denis Mackail
- Susan Miles
- Elizabeth Anna Hart
- Julia Strachey
- Anna Gmeyner
- Elizabeth Cambridge
- Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
- Leonard Woolf
- Francis Towers
- Ambrose Heath
- Barbara Euphan Todd
- Lettice Cooper
- Margaret Bonham
- Helen Ashton
- Hilda Bernstein
- Duff Cooper
- Ruby Ferguson
- Georges, Vicomte de Mauduit
- Virginia Woolf
- R. C. Sheriff
- Ethel Wilson
- Norah Hoult
- Barbara Noble
- Molly Hughes
- Kay Smallshaw
- Joanna Cannan
- Diana Gardner
- Rachel Ferguson
- Muriel Stuart
- Dorothy B. Hughes
- Patience Grey
- Primrose Boyd
- Winifred Peck
- Edith Henrietta Fowler
- Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg
- Winifred Holtby
- Penelope Mortimer
- Maud Pember Reeves
- Lucy H. Yates
- D. E. Stevenson
- Arthur Hugh Clough
- Christine Longford
- Maria Eliza Rundell
- Irene Nemirovsky
- Beth Gutcheon
- Mrs Oliphant
- Diana Athill
- Adam Ferguson
- Constance Maud
- Elizabeth Jenkins
- John Coates
- Helen Hull
- Elisabeth de Waal
- Enid Bagnold
- Eugenia Ginzburg
- Jonathan Smith
- Rosalind Murray
- Ambrose Heath
External links
- Persephone Books official site
- Article on Persephone Books by Rachel Cooke in The Observer (November 2012)
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