Mamma (1955) is about a middle-aged widow who is in love with her daughter’s husband
Set in small-town New England
and this was something that – unfortunately – only the better-off could do
and because it conveys very effectively a sense of the old house and what is meant to be the various persons connected with it
but her voice is as beautiful and as vibrant as if she were still a young woman
A Very Great Profession Category_Grey Books/Poetry Mamma (1955) is about a408pp ISBN 9781903155684 Written by Nicola Beauman, the founder of Persephone Books, and first published in 1983, we hope that readers will enjoy a book about the kind of books that Persephone reprints. A Very Great Profession analyses the work of a number of women writers to present a portrait, though their fiction, of middle class Englishwomen in the period between the wars, along the way illuminating themes such as domestic life, romantic love,