Tea or Books? #107: Do We Care What Characters Read? and Two Stella Gibbons Novels

Books in books and Stella Gibbons – welcome to episode 107! In the first half, we continue our ‘do we care…’ series with ‘do we care what characters read?’ By which we mean we’re looking at the books that characters

Books in books and Stella Gibbons – welcome to episode 107!

In the first half, we continue our ‘do we care…’ series with ‘do we care what characters read?’ By which we mean we’re looking at the books that characters read, and what that tells us about them. In the second half, we compare two novels by Stella Gibbons – The Bachelor and Enbury Heath.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode:

The Good Companions by J.B. Priestley

An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim

A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor

Heat Wave by Penelope Lively

Instructions for a Heat Wave by Maggie O’Farrell

Heat Lightning by Helen Hull

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Provincial Lady series by E.M. Delafield

The Priory by Dorothy Whipple

William Shakespeare

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Brontes Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson

Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther

Harriet Hume by Rebecca West

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Baedeker Guides

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

Michael Arlen

William Burroughs

Warwick Deeping

E.M. Dell

Gilbert Frankau

Pamela Frankau

John Galsworthy

Philip Gibbs

J.B. Priestley

Sapper

Hugh Walpole

F.R. and Q.D. Leavis

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radclyffe

Horace Walpole

Lover’s Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald

A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood

A Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood

Agatha Christie

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Penelope Lively

Penelope Mortimer

Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham

Walt Whitman

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Virginia Woolf in Manhattan by Maggie Gee

A House in the Country by Ruth Adam

Bassett by Stella Gibbons

Westwood by Stella Gibbons

Tea Is So Intoxicating by Mary Essex

Late and Soon by E.M. Delafield

A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor