Persephone Books discussion

May buddy read is The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories.

I'll list the stories later so people can track them down.

Thanks! Are we discussing them in the order of the book?

I thought I would put up separate threads for the stories so that people can discuss them as they want. I can only put 3 up at a time however, so if there is a story anyone wants to talk about before I get the thread up, please feel free to add your own thread.

Super thanks!

I don’t own a copy but found a store near me that has a copy. I’ll join in if I find it:) Thanks, Tania.

That's great. I'm trying to find links to the stories or other places where they can be read, so if you can't find it, hopefully you can still join for some of them.

I couldn't find a copy of the collection too, but I have found on the Internet a few of them.

"In dull brown" by Evelyn Sharp (1896) https://vsfp.byu.edu/index.php/title/...
"The bedquilt" by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1906) https://books.google.pl/books/about/T...
"Her first ball" by Katherine Mansfield (1921) https://digital.library.upenn.edu/wom...
"The other wife" by Colette (1924) https://www.101bananas.com/library2/o...
"After tea" by Dorothy Whipple (1941) https://www.cottontown.org/Culture%20...
"Monsieur Rose" by Irène Nèmirovsky (1941) https://esl-bits.eu/ESL.English.Liste...

A few were read by Francesca Beauman on her YouTube channel:

"Thunder shower" by Malachi Whitaker (1933) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUHoU...
"Miss Anstruther's letters" by Rose Macaulay (1942) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvrzU...
"Year of decision" by Mollie Panter-Downes (1944) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kBXU...
"The proof" by Mary Rickwood (1954) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuWbb...
"Gilbert" by Rosamunde Pilcher (1984) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPxK5...
"Sunday morning" by Dorothy Whipple (1961) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJQ9u...

I have also found out that two other stories are part of two collections:

"The prisoner" by Elizabeth Berridge (1948) Family matters: Sixteen stories available on https://archive.org/details/familymat...
"For good" by Alice Adams (1977) The Stories of Alice Adams
"Accidents" by Carol Shields (1984) The Collected Stories of Carol Shields

Update (coping from other thread):

Susan has found on https://persephonebooks.co.uk/pages/b...

The Other Wife, Colette, Autumn/Winter 2012, p. 16
For Good, Alice Adams, Spring/Summer 2013, p. 16
Miss Anstruther’s Letters, Autumn/Winter 2013, p. 16
The Casualty List, Autumn/Winter 2015, p. 9
The Green Heart, Autumn/Winter 2015, p. 20
To Open A Door, Spring/Summer 2017, p. 17

And I have found:

The exile / Joanna Cannan (1939) https://persephonebooks.flywheelsites... page 10
Going home / Sally Benson (1942) https://persephonebooks.flywheelsites... page 10
The house at hove / Diana Gardner (1944) https://persephonebooks.flywheelsites... page 10

Thanks, Mela, for all your research! I missed your earlier message and am amazed you’ve found so many of the stories. Thank you!

I am planning on reading them in order as per the book. But I guess I don’t have to do that based on what I am noting in what’s being read.

I'm reading in order, but not everyone commenting has the book, so the stories are being commenting on are out of order, which is why I set up separate threads. You can read them whichever way you would like. Glad you got hold of a copy. 😊

It was my lucky day, Tania, to find a copy in a local bookstore:)

Mela wrote: "I couldn't find a copy of the collection too, but I have found on the Internet a few of them.

"In dull brown" by Evelyn Sharp (1896) https://vsfp.byu.edu/index.php/title/...
"The bedq..."

This YouTube channel is delightful! I may become a regular

Susan wrote: "This YouTube channel is delightful! I may become a regular"

I think there are more of Francesca's readings on her Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/francescabe...) and on Instagram she still posts, on the YT channel there has been nothing new for three years.

Thanks, Mela. I’ll check her out on Instagram.

I have read all the stories I could find (links are a few messages above). Ratings and short reviews of each of them in my review. Many of them were brilliant in my opinion, the other were not as great.

If I had to choose three I loved the most it would be:

"Her first ball" by Katherine Mansfield
"The other wife" by Colette
"The green heart" by Jane McClure