![]() ![]() ![]() Here we have Avery and Ellen North, blissfully married for 20 years. It is a heart-breaking account of the breakdown of a marriage, written with restraint, style and gentle humour. Even so, she still qualifies for a place in the Birthday Book of Underappreciated Lady Authors compiled by Jane at Beyond Eden Rock, and since today would have been her birthday (Whipple that is, not Jane), I’ve scribbled some thoughts on Someone at a Distance, which I really enjoyed. Explaining her position in a Guardian article back in 2008, Virago founder Carmen Callil said: “Whipple was a popular novelist of the 1930s and 1940s whose prose and content absolutely defeated us.” Personally I think she was wrong, and it seems I’m not the only one, because Dorothy Whipple is now published by Persephone and has become their best-selling author. ![]() Worse still, the company had a standard known as the ‘Whipple line’, below which they ‘would not sink’. EPersephone’s Classic edition of Dorothy Whipple’s Someon At A Distance.ĭorothy Whipple famously – or perhaps infamously – was the novelist Virago refused to publish. ![]()
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