Most twentieth-century middle-class households would have had a chaise-longue, even if not an embroidered one as in The Victorian Chaise-longue.

In many of our books eg novels by Dorothy Whipple or DE Stevenson, the families would definitely not have had a bentwood rocking chair, it would have been seen as outlandish. But of course the characters in The Oppermanns not only revered Thonet bentwood, they sold it in their shops.

Unappealing aesthetically, but a vintage Parker Knoll armchair is so terribly comfortable, and if recovered in a wonderful fabric could even become a thing of beauty.

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.

Simran Janjua's Dadi's Love 2020 was taken during lockdown. This photograph says so much: about women's lives and the pandemic and love for one another.

'A Woman Playing a Clavichord' Gerrit Dou (1613-75) c.1665

An article in the Guardian about the Dulwich exhibition is rather wittily headed 'Her Indoors'. Laura Cumming likes the idea of a 'concept' exhibition so much that she ended her piece thus: 'This is a show to make you look harder and think longer about both art and life; about the depiction of women, the experience of seeing and being seen. Superbly curated by Jennifer Sliwka, it is enthralling, imaginative and constantly surprising. The selection is so intelligent, the texts so stimulating and the design so creative... as to amount to a reframing, in itself, of what an exhibition can be.' This is Saint Avia  (The Jailed Woman) c. 1450-1500 'with a view of the world she can see but never reach/'