by Administrator | Oct 25, 2020 | Quick Reads
Highfield House was built in 1797 for Joseph Lowe (thrice Mayor of Nottingham). Over the following decade Lowe and his son, Alfred, carried out the landscaping that’s formed much of the existing Highfields Park. The Highfield House estate remained with the Lowes for...
by Administrator | Aug 29, 2018 | Readers & Writers
Dorothy Whipple’s debut, Young Anne, was first published in 1927 by Jonathan Cape, but has been republished in 2018 by Persephone Books. It is an accomplished first novel with a fascinating hint (as is the case with many debuts) of autobiography. An everyday,...
by Administrator | Aug 21, 2018 | Readers & Writers
I was so certain that High Wages was going to be a Cinderella-style story that I’d begun to formulate my review before I was even 100 pages in. ‘Who doesn’t love a good Cinderella tale?’ I was going to say. ‘With High Wages Whipple has taken Cinderella and relocated...
by Administrator | Aug 15, 2018 | Readers & Writers
Dorothy Whipple’s 1934 novel, They Knew Mr Knight, centres on a typical middle-class family in the Midlands in the late 1920s, the Blakes: ‘…the Blakes had been, like a happy country without history. They had lived in the Grove, holding together.’ Whipple examines...
by Administrator | Aug 8, 2018 | Readers & Writers
The house was called Greenbanks, but there was no green to be seen today; all the garden was deep in snow’. Dorothy Whipple’s 1932 novel (republished by Persephone Books in 2011) Greenbanks begins with a deceptive sense of calm. ‘Snow muffled the old house…and made it...
