How ‘middlebrow’ women’s books were brought back from the dead
[ad_1] For decades, Dorothy Whipple was just another forgotten female author, her books long out of print, her portraits of domestic feminism long out of favour. Then came Persephone Books. Thanks to the niche publisher, which specialises in overlooked women writers, Whipple, who died in 1966, is now a cult sensation. “I cannot tell you…