Read the book, sit on the chair: this week on the Post the kind of chair the characters would have sat on in Family Roundabout or Saplings or Princes in the Land, in fact in most of our books. One could indeed write a page for the Biannually on furniture in Persephone books, starting naturally with The Victorian Chaise-longue. First, an Arts and Crafts chair. We have one of these in the shop and when customers aren't sitting on it we hook both types of Persephone bag, the linen and the canvas, over it.