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Dorothy Whipple's key theme – it is one with which most Persephone readers will (we hope) identify profoundly – is ‘Live and Let Live’
By the time I read her taut descriptions of the ravages of the Somme
range and power
reviewers were unanimous in their praise
that it had become increasingly absurd not to include one of the great documents of twentieth-century feminist history amongst them
The Home-Maker Gift Wrapping:Reusable fabric napkin Dorothy Whipple's key theme –PREFACE BY KAREN KNOX AFTERWORD BY ELAINE SHOWALTER 288pp ISBN 9780953478064 'A story of radical gender role reversal the characters are forceful and still live on the page today, and the book is compulsively readable. It's a complicated and passionate story about family life, about the inner lives of parents, and also of children.' (New Yorker) First published in 1924 and an immediate bestseller at the time, The Home Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher