They’re classic. They’re stylish. They’re dove-grey. They’re so, so pretty. They’re Persephone Books.
If you’re looking for a spreadsheet you can download, modify and call your own, click here.
(Right now it lists the Persephones that I have and the ones that I have read, but you can delete those bits!)
| 1 William – an Englishman | Hamilton, Cicely |
| 2 Mariana | Dickens, Monica |
| 3 Someone at a Distance | Whipple, Dorothy |
| 4 Fidelity | Glaspell, Susan |
| 5 An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of EH | Hillesum, Etty |
| 6 The Victorian Chaise-Longue | Laski, Marghanita |
| 7 The Home-Maker | Fisher, Dorothy Canfield |
| 8 Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories | Panter-Downes, Mollie |
| 9 Few Eggs and No Oranges | Hodgson, Vere |
| 10 Good Things in England | White, Florence |
| 11 Julian Grenfell | Mosley, Nicholas |
| 12 It’s Hard to be Hip Over Thirty | Viorst, Judith |
| 13 Consequences | Delafield, E.M. |
| 14 Farewell Leicester Square | Miller, Betty |
| 15 Tell It To a Stranger | Berridge, Elizabeth |
| 16 Saplings | Streatfeild, Noel |
| 17 Marjory Fleming | Malet, Oriel |
| 18 Every Eye | English, Isobel |
| 19 They Knew Mr. Knight | Whipple, Dorothy |
| 20 A Woman’s Place: 1910-75 | Adam, Ruth |
| 21 Miss. Pettigrew Lives for a Day | Watson, Winifred |
| 22 Consider the Years | Graham, Virginia |
| 23 Reuben Sachs | Levy, Amy |
| 24 Family Roundabout | Crompton, Richmal |
| 25 The Montana Stories | Mansfield, Katherine |
| 26 Brook Evans | Glaspell, Susan |
| 27 The Children who Lived in a Barn | Graham, Eleanor |
| 28 Little Boy Lost | Laski, Marghanita |
| 29 The Making of a Marchioness | Burnett, Frances Hodgson |
| 30 Kitchen Essays | Jekyll, Agnes |
| 31 A House in the Country | Playfair, Jocelyn |
| 32 The Carlyles at Home | Holme, Thea |
| 33 The Far Cry | Smith, Emma |
| 34 Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories | Panter-Downes, Mollie |
| 35 Greenery Street | Mackail, Denis |
| 36 Lettice Delmer | Miles, Susan |
| 37 The Runaway | Hart, Elizabeth Anna |
| 38 Cheerful Weather for the Wedding | Strachey, Julia |
| 39 Manja | Gmeyner, Anna |
| 40 The Priory | Whipple, Dorothy |
| 41 Hostages to Fortune | Cambridge, Elizabeth |
| 42 The Blank Wall | Holding, Elisabeth Sanxay |
| 43 The Wise Virgins | Woolf, Leonard |
| 44 Tea with Mr. Rochester | Towers, Frances |
| 45 Good Food on the Aga | Heath, Ambrose |
| 46 Miss Ranskill Comes Home | Todd, Barbara Euphan |
| 47 The New House | Cooper, Lettice |
| 48 The Casino | Bonham, Margaret |
| 49 Bricks and Mortar | Ashton, Helen |
| 50 The World that was Ours | Bernstein, Hilda |
| 51 Operation Heartbreak | Cooper, Duff |
| 52 The Village | Laski, Marghanita |
| 53 Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary | Ferguson, Ruby |
| 54 They Can’t Ration These | de Mauduit, Vicomte |
| 55 Flush | Woolf, Virginia |
| 56 They Were Sisters | Whipple, Dorothy |
| 57 The Hopkins Manuscript | Sherriff, RC |
| 58 Hetty Dorval | Wilson, Ethel |
| 59 There Were No Windows | Hoult, Norah |
| 60 Doreen | Noble, Barbara |
| 61 A London Child of the 1870s | Hughes, Molly |
| 62 How to Run Your Home Without Help | Smallshaw, Kay |
| 63 Princes in the Land | Cannan, Joanna |
| 64 A Woman Novelist and Other Stories | Gardner, Diana |
| 65 Alas, Poor Lady | Ferguson, Rachel |
| 66 Gardener’s Nightcap | Stuart, Muriel |
| 67 The Fortnight in September | Sherriff, RC |
| 68 The Expendable Man | Hughes, Dorothy B. |
| 69 Journal | Mansfield, Katherine |
| 70 Plats du Jour | Gray, Patience and Primrose Boyd |
| 71 The Shuttle | Burnett, Frances Hodgson |
| 72 House-Bound | Peck, Winifred |
| 73 The Young Pretenders | Fowler, Edith Henrietta |
| 74 The Closed Door and Other Stories | Whipple, Dorothy |
| 75 On the Other Side: Letters to my Children… | Wolff-Monckeberg, Mathilde |
| 76 The Crowded Street | Holtby, Winifred |
| 77 Daddy’s Gone-A-Hunting | Mortimer, Penelope |
| 78 A Very Great Profession | Beauman, Nicola |
| 79 Round about a Pound a Week | Reeves, Maud Pember |
| 80 The Country Housewife’s Book | Yates, Lucy H. |
| 81 Miss Buncle’s Book | Stevenson, DE |
| 82 Amours de Voyage | Clough, Arthur Hugh |
| 83 Making Conversation | Longford, Christine |
| 84 A New System of Domestic Cookery | Rundell, Mrs. |
| 85 High Wages | Whipple, Dorothy |
| 86 To Bed with Grand Music | Laski, Marghanita |
