Tea or Books? #48: Sad Beginnings vs Happy Beginnings and The Semi-Attached Couple vs The Semi-Detached House

Emily Eden and the openings of books – we muddle our way through episode 48!   First – do send any questions you have for episode 50 to simonthomasoxford[at]gmail.com. We’re quite excited about finding out what you’ll ask – about

Emily Eden and the openings of books – we muddle our way through episode 48!

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First – do send any questions you have for episode 50 to simonthomasoxford[at]gmail.com. We’re quite excited about finding out what you’ll ask – about us, about books, about podcasting. Anything. If it’s a geography question then I for sure won’t know the answer.

In the first half of this episode we look at the beginnings of books, and discuss whether we prefer them happy or sad – and it turned out to be a very difficult topic to nail down. Your thoughts must appreciated! And in the second half, we talk about two very good novels by the Victorian writer Emily Eden.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Men and Wives by Ivy Compton-Burnett

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Love Child by Edith Olivier

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Women by Louisa M Alcott

The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day by Winifred Watson

The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Greenery Street by Denis Mackail

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Margaret Atwood

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

P.G. Wodehouse

Nancy Mitford

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Don Quixote by Cervantes

‘Miss Brill’ by Katherine Mansfield

The Semi-Attached Couple by Emily Eden

The Semi-Detached House by Emily Eden

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Emma by Jane Austen

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Fanny Burney

Portraits of the People and Princes of India by Emily Eden

Up the Country by Emily Eden