Tea or Books? #38: male characters by women vs female characters by men, and Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont vs At The Jerusalem

Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Bailey, and a bit of a debate about male and female characters. Here’s episode 38 – which is unusually short, but hopefully fun nonetheless. I’ve left in an amusing moment of drama…   Many thanks to Kaisha

Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Bailey, and a bit of a debate about male and female characters. Here’s episode 38 – which is unusually short, but hopefully fun nonetheless. I’ve left in an amusing moment of drama…

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Many thanks to Kaisha for suggesting men written by women vs women written by me – we had fun discussing it, and very much welcome everybody’s feedback. For the second half, we debate two books about old people’s homes – Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor and At The Jerusalem by Paul Bailey, which have a sort-of connection that readers of Virago Modern Classics introductions might have cottoned on to.

Do let us know any topics you’d like us to discuss – and which you’d pick from each category. Check out our iTunes page over here – ratings and reviews through iTunes or podcast apps always much appreciated. And hopefully we’ll back with a special guest next time…

Books and authors we mention in this episode are as follows…

The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells

Ann Veronica by H.G. Wells

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Don’t Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford

Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

Pamela by Samuel Richardson

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

Ian McEwan

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Mrs Harris series by Paul Gallico

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Provincial Lady series by E.M. Delafield

Ian and Felicity by Denis Mackail

Charles Dickens

Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli

Adam Bede by George Eliot

The Professor by Charlotte Bronte

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte

Elizabeth Gaskell

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The Girl With Glass Feet by Ali Shaw

V.S. Naipaul

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

At The Jerusalem by Paul Bailey

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Memento Mori by Muriel Spark

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Daddy Long-Legs by Jean Webster