Persephone Books
Persephone Books is an independent publisher based in Bloomsbury, London. Founded in 1999 by Nicola Beauman, Persephone Books reprints works largely by women writers of the late 19th and 20th century, though the company also publishes a few books by men. Their catalogue of 135 books[1] include fiction (novels and short stories) and non-fiction (diaries, memoirs and cookery books). Each book has a grey dustjacket and endpaper using a contemporaneous design, with a matching bookmark.
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| Founded | 1999 |
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| Founder | Nicola Beauman |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London, WC1 |
| Publication types | Largely-neglected fiction and non-fiction by women writers |
| Official website | www |
They sell their books mostly through their website, but also have a shop on Lamb's Conduit Street, London.
Authors
Authors published by Persephone Books include:
- Elisabeth de Waal
- Elizabeth Anna Hart
- Margaret Bonham
- Dorothy Whipple
- Gladys Huntington
- Cicely Hamilton
- Monica Dickens
- Susan Glaspell
- Robin Hyde
- Etty Hillesum
- Marghanita Laski
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Mollie Panter-Downes
- Vere Hodgson
- Florence White
- Judith Viorst
- E. M. Delafield
- Betty Miller
- Elizabeth Berridge
- Noel Streatfeild
- 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
- Frances 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. Sherriff
- Ethel Wilson
- Norah Hoult
- Barbara Noble
- Molly Hughes
- Kay Smallshaw
- Joanna Cannan
- Diana Gardner
- Rachel Ferguson
- Muriel Stuart
- Dorothy B. Hughes
- Patience Gray
- 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
- Irène Némirovsky
- Beth Gutcheon
- Mrs Oliphant
- Diana Athill
- Adam Ferguson
- Constance Maud
- Elizabeth Jenkins
- John Coates
- Helen Hull
- Enid Bagnold
- Eugenia Ginzburg
- Jonathan Smith
- Rosalind Murray
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References
- "Persephone Books". Persephone Books. 12 April 2020.
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