Tea or Books? #99: Do We Like Essays? and Brook Evans vs The Crowded Street

Winifred Holtby, Susan Glaspell, and essays – welcome to episode 99! Sorry for an unintended long break, but we’re back and Rachel even has a new mic – hopefully has helped with the sound issues, though there may be some

Winifred Holtby, Susan Glaspell, and essays – welcome to episode 99!

Sorry for an unintended long break, but we’re back and Rachel even has a new mic – hopefully has helped with the sound issues, though there may be some teething problems while we get used to it. (I do my best but I am certainly not a professional editor!)

Don’t forget – we would love your questions for episode 100. Do send questions to [email protected], on anything you’d like to know about – from books to podcasting to tea to anything else.

In this episode, in the first half we talk about essays – and it is surprising that we haven’t done it before. In the second half, we compare two Persephone books – Winifred Holtby’s The Crowded Street and Susan Glaspell’s Brook Evans.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L Sayers

Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla

Akenfield by Ronald Blythe

Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker

The Poor Man by Stella Benson

Princes in the Land by Joanna Cannan

Murder Included by Joanna Cannan

When I Was A Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

If I May by A.A. Milne

Once a Week by A.A. Milne

Delight by J.B. Priestley

Personal Pleasures by Rose Macaulay

Forty-One False Starts by Janet Malcolm

Edith Wharton

The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm

Notes From No-Man’s Land by Eula Biss

Having and Being Had by Eula Biss

Fran Lebowitz

Gloria Steinem

Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde

The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson

Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron

E.V. Lucas

George Orwell

Max Beerbohm

Notes to Self by Emilie Pine

Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins

Thank Heaven Fasting by E.M. Delafield

Fidelity by Susan Glaspell

Alas, Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson

South Riding by Winifred Holtby

National Provincial by Lettice Cooper