Ethel Wilson's Stories, Essays and Letters, Ed. David Stouck U of BC Press, 1987 If you are keenly interested in Ethel Wilson, you will definitely appreciate this volume, which does gather nine stories not published in her Mrs. Golightly collection, six essays, and selected correspondence from 1944 through 1974. And,
Mary McAlpine's The Other Side of Silence: A Life of Ethel Wilson Harbour Publishing, 1988 I came across this bit in David Stouck's biography before I even had a copy of Mary McAlpine's book in my hands and it raised a string of questions that niggled and nagged until I
Alberto Manguel's The Library at Night Random House, 2006 I've borrowed this from the library so many times that it's embarrassing (although it feels strangely appropriate too, given its title). But bookishly embarrassing, the kind easily masked by raising your current read to hide your face. Nonetheless, Alberto Manguel's book
Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg's On the Other Side: Letters to My Children: From Germany 1940-1946 Persephone No. 75 (2007) Trans. from the German and Edited by Ruth Evans Peter Owen, 1979 I added this one to my reading list for the same reason that Persephone added it to its publication list: to
Vere Hodgson's Few Eggs and No Oranges: 1940-45 Persephone No. 9 (1999) Ironically, it was not a book -- Persephone or otherwise -- that settled my debate about which Persephones to read for Persephone week. It was the combination of my having responded so strongly to Pat Barker's Regeneration series
