My Persephone Book

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Allow me a literary squee. My friend KP gave me for my birthday my choice of any book from the Persephone books catalogue, and my book arrived in the post today: A London Child of the 1870s by Molly Hughes. I had a hard time choosing - narrowed it down to three, and then decided on this one. These books are so lovely! I'm sure oursin and all my other UK lj friends know all about them, but I take a great pleasure in these elegant little volumes with beautiful end papers and their own matching bookmark. There's some bitter-sweetness to this, as my mum would have loved not only the concept but the book itself, I'm sure. Oh well; I'll read it in her memory as well as for myself. Shall report on contents of same, later.

Comments

[owlfish]

How lovely they are! I wasn't aware of Persephone Books, so thank you for the recommendation.

[gillo]

I love the Molly Hughes books, though I read them in much more plebeian editions than this. The bits about her time at North London Collegiate are hilarious. (Can't remember if it's this book or the next, but this one is full of goodies anyway.)

[intertext.livejournal.com]

I think it must be the next one - I see they're a trilogy - in this one she hasn't yet started school. I've been dipping into it already, and it looks delightful

[gillo]

It really is. At the time I read the trilogy - I reced through them very fast - I was working in another of the London Girls' Day Schools Mafia. So a lot of it was familiar from histories of my own school!

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Aren't they lovely? I didn't know they'd done the Hughes (I have the trilogy version as published by OUP).