Category: Dorothy Whipple
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"giving pleasure or satisfaction; pleasant or attractive:" This is the dictionary definition of the word nice. I feel that sometimes this particular word can be used in a derogatory manner or to intimate something bland and uninteresting. But, as you can see from above, it can mean precisely what is says – giving pleasure or…
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I don't know about you dear readers but I am finding it pretty hard at the moment to concentrate on anything but I decided I really must make the effort. So a cup of tea to hand and a bar of chocolate (I am not of the mindset to worry about calories at the moment)…
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The other day a package dropped though my letterbox containing my copy of Young Anne by Dorothy Whipple which I had ordered from Persephone Books. As well as the accompanying bookmark there was a photograph of Dorothy Whipple and on the back was written ‘To mark the publication of Young Anne (1927). All eight of…