Here's a partial look at the 'distaff side' of One Hundred Writers in One Box: Postcards from Penguin Modern Classics, all are famous authors, but some faces are better known than others
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Speaking of literary ladies, I have no pictures to show for it but I spent a lovely few hours on Saturday catching up with my old friend Sarah Salway, novelist, poet, short story writer and newly appointed Canterbury Laureate. Appropriately, our rendezvous was the Scottish Poetry Library from where we went up to the Scottish Storytelling Centre for tea, and then had a wander through Edinburgh's Old and New Town, talking books all the way!
I only recognise Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf... poor show, Simon!
Very excited about this boxset though, hadn't heard about it before - I'm going to wait and see if anyone gets it for my birthday next week, and if not - then I'll buy it for myself!
Posted by: Simon T | 31 October 2011 at 11:59 PM
I-Spy Flora Thompson there and Angela Carter. I may have to ask for this set for Christmas.
Posted by: Barbara | 01 November 2011 at 07:59 AM
I read them all regularly! No seriously, recognise hardly any, but am reading the one in the middle - "Leslie Stephen's girl" - at the moment. Regards, Lindsay (Tokyo)
Posted by: Lindsay | 02 November 2011 at 05:52 AM
Only three souls willing to offer an answer?
You are correct, of course, so well done, all.
Posted by: Cornflower | 02 November 2011 at 03:21 PM
Ayn Rand, Muriel Spark?,Katherine Mansfield, Angela Carter, Virginia Woolf, Karen Blixen?, Dorothy Parker, Flora Thompson,
Posted by: Ruth Marler | 02 November 2011 at 09:14 PM
Well done, Ruth. Just one still to identify.
Posted by: Cornflower | 02 November 2011 at 10:01 PM
So top middle IS Muriel Spark, is it? She looks Irish so I hazarded a guess.
So that leaves bottom middle...
I felt that Gertrude Stein ought to be there but bottom middle looks too beautiful, too soft for her.
I'm guessing that the photo was taken in the 1940s.
Will you give us a clue?
Posted by: Ruth Marler | 03 November 2011 at 06:54 AM
Is the one in the bottom middle Rumer Godden?
Posted by: Roisin McAuley | 03 November 2011 at 08:24 AM
I'm not sure but I think the bottom row centre is Pamela Frankau (spelling?) Virginia is there - when is she not?
Posted by: Margaret Powling | 03 November 2011 at 09:09 PM
It was a lovely walk, and yes I think we managed to cover lots and lots of books - even if we didn't actually find the bookshop we were after!
Posted by: Sarah Salway | 04 November 2011 at 08:51 AM