Tea or Books? #17: diaries vs letters and The Importance of Being Earnest vs The Picture of Dorian Gray

  Letters! Diaries! Oscar Wilde! We’ve got it all – well, those three things – in episode 17 of Tea or Books?, which has taken a bit of time to arrive, for which I apologise. But we are as rambling

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Letters! Diaries! Oscar Wilde! We’ve got it all – well, those three things – in episode 17 of Tea or Books?, which has taken a bit of time to arrive, for which I apologise. But we are as rambling and bookish as ever. Do let us know which you’d choose in each category, and any suggestions you have for great collections of letters of diaries.

Ooops for the moment where I said Virginia Woolf when I meant Jane Austen. Sorry Jane.

Next week we’ll be getting into all things Agatha, pitting Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot against each other. That one should be fun. Do, do, do let us know any suggestions you have for future episodes – we love getting them. Listen above, or visit our iTunes page (or use your podcast provider of choice). You can even rate us on iTunes if you so please.

Here are the books and authors we mentioned this week:

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty by Judith Viorst

The Small Miracle by Paul Gallico

Moranifesto by Caitlin Moran

The Prose Factory by D.J. Taylor

The Years by Virginia Woolf

The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty

The Lost Europeans by Emanuel Litvinoff

What There Is To Say, We Have Said by William Maxwell and Eudora Welty

The Element of Lavishness by Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell

The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters ed. Charlotte Mosley

The Letters of Elizabeth Myers ed. Littleton Powys

A Well Full of Leaves by Elizabeth Myers

More Was Lost by Eleanor Perenyi

The Romanovs: 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Sylvia and David: the Townsend Warner/Garnett Letters

Bloomsbury’s Outsider by Sarah Knights

Lady Into Fox by David Garnett

The Letters of Virginia Woolf

The Letters of Jane Austen

A Writer’s Diary by Virginia Woolf

Nella Last’s War by Nella Last

A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt ed. Simon Garfield

A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip ed. Alexander Masters

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare