Now marking its 25th birthday, the imprint's stylish reissues of neglected works by women has built a devoted following - and sparked a boom in heritage publishingSusie Mesure is a freelance feature writer and interviewer. She was previously a senior writer and retail correspondent at The Independent and The Independent on Sunday.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.
“It was a fairy story,” Beauman tells me while nursing a cup of green tea in a Persephone mug. “Miss Pettigrew was a bestseller and then they all began to sell.” The shop has shelf space for all 150 books that Persephone has republished; most focus on the interwar years when women were writing compelling fiction. As to why that should have been so, Beauman thinks it has to be “something to do with the First World War and fewer women getting married”, leaving them with more time and headspace to write books.l Crompton, as well as lesser-known works from better-known writers such as Elizabeth von Arnim and Katherine Mansfield.
Although Persephone is a small, independent publisher, which makes it unlikely to shift mountains of books, Beauman estimates they have sold at least 20,000 copies of, that first Whipple novel they republished. “All those 20,000 people will have loved it,” she adds.
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