Tea or Books? #60: married vs unmarried characters, and Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day vs Patricia Brent, Spinster

This episode is all about married and unmarried people – in general, and two ‘spinsters’ in particular. Buckle up!   (Apologies if the podcast in your app overlaps the intro music with the intro chat… this one doesn’t, but I

This episode is all about married and unmarried people – in general, and two ‘spinsters’ in particular. Buckle up!

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(Apologies if the podcast in your app overlaps the intro music with the intro chat… this one doesn’t, but I don’t know how it’ll appear elsewhere!)

In the first half, we look at books with married or unmarried characters. Yes, I’m aware that that is all books. We do narrow down a little! And in the second half we narrow down to two particular unmarried women – in Winifred Watson’s Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day and Herbert Jenkins’ Patricia Brent, Spinster. Very many thanks to Karen for suggesting the topic. It is perhaps our most controversial one ever!

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

A Lost Lady by Willa Cather

The Professor’s House by Willa Cather

Turtle Diary by Russell Hoban

Mansfield and Me called Sarah Laing

Brecht Evens

Peter Pan and Wendy by J.M. Barrie

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Dear Mrs Bird by A.J. Pearce

Greenery Street by Denis Mackail

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge

They Knew Mr Knight by Dorothy Whipple

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Mr Bridge by Evan S. Connell

Mrs Bridge by Evan S. Connell

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Mr Pim Passes By / Mr Pim by A.A. Milne

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Love Child by Edith Olivier

The Rector’s Daughter by F.M. Mayor

Alas, Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson

Consequences by E.M. Delafield

Thanks Heaven Fasting by E.M. Delafield

Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair

The Odd Women by George Gissing

Emma by Jane Austen

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann

Frost in May by Antonia White

The Way Things Are – E.M. Delafield

Fell Top by Winifred Watson

Mary Webb

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

The Return of Albert by Herbert Jenkins

Bindle by Herbert Jenkins

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles