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Reading in Place—Fiction to Shelter By

April 11, 2020 By marlowe benn

P. G. Wodehouse

In this stressful time, your world like mine probably feels unmoored. Anxieties have mushroomed, filled with a thousand concerns I couldn’t have unimagined a few months ago. At the same time my world has shrunk, reduced to the physical parameters of my house, garden, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Barbara Pym, Cathleen Schine, George Saunders, historical mystery, human comedy, Jeeves, Josephine Tey, Kate Atkinson, Muriel Spark, Ngaio Marsh, P.G. Wodehouse, pandemic, Passing Fancies, Penelope Fitzgerald, Relative Fortunes

Taking Her Seriously: Bookwoman Beatrice Warde

March 8, 2020 By marlowe benn

Beatrice Warde

Women’s History Month is far too short to celebrate all the important women who have helped shape our modern book culture. Authors, of course, but I’m thinking especially of women printers, publishers, typographers, illustrators, graphic designers, librarians, booksellers, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 1920s, Beatrice Warde, Frederic Warde, historical mystery, Julia Kydd, Notable book women, Passing Fancies, Relative Fortunes, Stanley Morison, typography

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