Etty Hillesum's An Interrupted Life: 1941-1943 Persephone No. 4 (1999) Of the three personal accounts that I read for Persephone Reading Week, In Wartime, An Interrupted Life, Etty Hillesum's diary, was the one that struck me most soundly. Partly, perhaps, because she does not survive the war, so what a
Mollie Panter-Downes' Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories Persephone No. 8 (1999) So you can choose to follow along with my bookish digression, or, you can do a quick online search on this collection and find many thorough reviews of and responses to it because -- both in and
Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg's On the Other Side: Letters to My Children: From Germany 1940-1946 Persephone No. 75 (2007) Trans. from the German and Edited by Ruth Evans Peter Owen, 1979 I added this one to my reading list for the same reason that Persephone added it to its publication list: to
Now if I had read Vere Hodgson's diaries when they first arrived, I would have realized sooner that my edition of Few Eggs and No Oranges was incomplete. I'm missing quite a selection of pages (564-5, 568-9, 572-3, 576-7, 580-1, 584-5, 588-9) which is doubly disappointing because it's from the
Vere Hodgson's Few Eggs and No Oranges: 1940-45 Persephone No. 9 (1999) Ironically, it was not a book -- Persephone or otherwise -- that settled my debate about which Persephones to read for Persephone week. It was the combination of my having responded so strongly to Pat Barker's Regeneration series
