Good Evening, Mrs Craven : The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

from cyclokitty

Bookended by Letters from London, these stories are set in wartime England. Stories of everyday life are set against a background of rationing, privation, and tension that serves to heighten the emotional tension of the stories. They're reminiscent of Barbara Pym, but more grounded, more emotiona...

from souloftherose

Good Evening, Mrs Craven is a wonderful selection of short stories written by Mollie Panter-Downes as articles for The New Yorker during WWII. The stories focus on middle-class women and how they were affected by the war, whether it's trying to say goodbye to a husband leaving for active service,...

from Kasthu

Good Evening Mrs. Craven is a collection of 21 short stories that Mollie Panter-Downes wrote for The New Yorker during the war years. Although she was English and lived in Surrey for most of her life, her work both as a short story writer and as a journalist has been virtually forgotten in Englan...

from helen295

Mollie Panter-Downes was the London correspondent for the New Yorker and this collection from Persephone Books brings together a number of her contributions to the magazine which were written during World War II. The book opens with her Letter from London dated 3 September 1939 and ends with anot...

from starbox

Superb war time stories set among those Keeping the Home Fires burning while the menfolk were away.. The wealthy, struggling along minus servants; those forced to share a home with friends or evacuees; sewing parties; a wife preparing for her husband's departure.. Originally written for the Ameri...