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John Betjeman in the Daily Telegraph called it ‘a really talented first novel
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George Eliot and Mrs Gaskell: ‘the exemplary woman of letters’ is how the literary critic Queenie Leavis described the author of Persephone Book No
her youngest daughter Ruth is living in Wales and her Hamburg relations disapproving of her unconventional personal life
Morgan has married and had two children
Miss Buncle’s Book (Classic edition) Category_Grey Books/Science Fiction John Betjeman in the DailyPREFACE BY ALINE TEMPLETON 352pp ISBN 9781906462574 The storyline of Miss Buncle's Book (1934) is a simple one: Barbara Buncle, who is unmarried and perhaps in her late 30s, lives in a small village and writes a novel about it in order to try and supplement her meagre income. In this respect she is at one with Miss Pettigrew and Miss Ranskill, two other unmarried women who, not having subsumed their existence into that of a man, have to find a way of