A Very Great Profession Category_Grey Books/Poetry Still from the 1949 film

Still from the 1949 film adaptation of The Blank Wall: The Reckless Moment starred Joan Bennett and James Mason

but her voice is as beautiful and as vibrant as if she were still a young woman

and this was something that – unfortunately – only the better-off could do

Set in small-town New England

Notting Hill Gate (the ground floor is now the public library) another suicide attempt was successful

A Very Great Profession Category_Grey Books/Poetry Still from the 1949 film408pp 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,