Tea or Books? #7: Persephone vs. Virago & To The Lighthouse vs. A Room of One’s Own

  Rachel and I are pitting our favourite publishers against each other in this (belated!) episode – Persephone vs Virago Modern Classics. We definitely want to keep both of them, of course, but had fun talking about our faves and a

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Rachel and I are pitting our favourite publishers against each other in this (belated!) episode – Persephone vs Virago Modern Classics. We definitely want to keep both of them, of course, but had fun talking about our faves and a few not-so-faves. And then things get Woolfian – To The Lighthouse vs A Room of One’s Own, where we try to decide whether we prefer Virginia Woolf’s fiction or non-fiction. Things get heated, y’all. (And my mic is a little fuzzy and wibbly. I need to work on that.)

This took ages to post because I’ve been so busy, so references to books to read for The 1924 Club are sadly no longer apt. Nor are my protestations of being in my 20s…

As usual, here are a list of the books we discuss. It was a LOT this week. You can listen to the podcast up above, or via iTunes, or through whichever podcast app you use (I love Podcast Addict, btw).

Mark Only by T.F. Powys

The Chateau by William Maxwell

The Element of Lavishness by William Maxwell and Sylvia Townsend Warner

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

The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell

My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin

The Squire by Enid Bagnold

The Loved and Envied by Enid Bagnold

The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold

Young Entry by Molly Keane

Tea and Tranquilisers by Diane Harpwood

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

The Rector’s Daughter by F.M. Mayor

The Home-maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Vicar’s Daughter by E.H. Young

The Clergyman’s Daughter by George Orwell

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Love-Child by Edith Olivier

Elizabeth von Arnim

Elizabeth Taylor

Barbara Pym

Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth von Arnim

One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes

No Surrender by Constance Maud

London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes

Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton

Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge

Consequences by E.M. Delafield

Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple

Fidelity by Susan Glaspell

The Runaway by Elizabeth Anna Hart

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson

William: an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Sylvia Plath

Bloomsbury’s Outsider by Sarah Knights

Enid Blyton

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Guard Your Daughters by Diana Tutton