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1816

A New System of Domestic Cookery Mrs Rundell

1858

Amours de Voyage Arthur Hugh Clough

1872

The Runaway Elizabeth Anna Hart

1873

The New Magdalen Wilkie Collins

1886-90

The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow Mrs Oliphant

1888

Reuben Sachs Amy Levy

1895

The Young Pretenders Edith Henrietta Fowler

Effi Briest Theodor Fontane

1901

The Making of a Marchioness Frances Hodgson Burnett

1907

The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett

1909-86

The Persephone Book of Short Stories

1910-22

Journal Katherine Mansfield

1911

No Surrender Constance Maud

1913

The Wise Virgins Leonard Woolf

Round about a Pound a Week Maud Pember Reeves

1914

A Lady and Her Husband by Amber Reeves

1914-39

A Very Great Profession: The Woman's Novel 1914-39 Nicola Beauman

1915

Fidelity Susan Glaspell

1918

Despised and Rejected Rose Allatini

1918-41

A Writer’s Diary Virginia Woolf

1919

William – an Englishman Cicely Hamilton

Consequences EM Delafield

1921-23

The Montana Stories Katherine Mansfield

1922

Kitchen Essays Agnes Jekyll

1924

The Home-Maker Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The Crowded Street Winifred Holtby

The Call Edith Ayrton Zangwill

The Rector's Daughter FM Mayor

1925

Greenery Street Denis Mackail

1925-45

Random Commentary by Dorothy Whipple

1926

The Happy Tree Rosalind Murray

 As It Was Helen Thomas

1927

Young Anne Dorothy Whipple

1928

Brook Evans Susan Glaspell

1929

A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf

Expiation Elizabeth von Arnim

1929-34

The Journey Home and Other Stories Malachi Whitaker 

1930

High Wages Dorothy Whipple

Diary of a Provincial Lady EM Delafield

The Deepening Stream Dorothy Canfield Fisher 

Out of the Window Madeline Linford

1930-42

 Long Live Great Bardfield Tirzah Garwood

1931

The Fortnight in September RC Sherriff

Making Conversation Christine Longford

World Without End Helen Thomas

1932

Heat Lightening Helen Hull

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding Julia Strachey

Greenbanks Dorothy Whipple

Good Things in England Florence White

Bricks and Mortar Helen Ashton

1933

Hostages to Fortune Elizabeth Cambridge

Good Food on the Aga Ambrose Heath

Flush Virginia Woolf

The Oppermanns Lion Feuchtwanger

1934

The Country Housewife’s Book Lucy H Yates

Miss Buncle’s Book DE Stevenson

Dinners for Beginners Rachel & Margaret Ryan

Harriet Elizabeth Jenkins

They Knew Mr Knight Dorothy Whipple

A London Child of the 1870s Molly Hughes

1934-42

Dimanche and Other Stories Irène Némirovsky

1935

Farewell Leicester Square Betty Miller

1935-61

The Closed Door and Other Stories Dorothy Whipple

1936

The New House Lettice Cooper

Miss Buncle Married DE Stevenson

Greengates RC Sherriff

The Other Day Dorothy Whipple

1937

Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary Ruby Ferguson

Alas, Poor Lady Rachel Ferguson

The Country Life Cookery Book Ambrose Heath

Gardeners' Choice  Evelyn Dunbar and Charles Mahoney

1938

Gardener’s Nightcap Muriel Stuart

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Winifred Watson

The Children who Lived in a Barn Eleanor Graham

Princes in the Land Joanna Cannan

The Squire Enid Bagnold

The Godwits Fly  Robin Hyde

National Provincial Lettice Cooper

1938-46

Consider the Years Virginia Graham

1939-44

Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

1939-45

London War Notes  Mollie Panter-Downes

1939

Manja Anna Gmeyner

The Hopkins Manuscript RC Sherriff

The Priory Dorothy Whipple

Sofia Petrovna Lydia Chukovskaya

1940

Mariana Monica Dickens

They Can’t Ration These Vicomte de Mauduit

1940-45

Few Eggs and No Oranges Vere Hodgson

1940-46

On the Other Side: Letters to my Children from Germany 1940-46

English Climate Sylvia Townsend Warner

1941-43

An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-43

1943

 House-Bound Winifred Peck

They Were Sisters Dorothy Whipple

The Two Mrs Abbotts DE Stevenson

 A Well Full of Leaves Elizabeth Myers

1944

A House in the Country Jocelyn Playfair

There Were No Windows Norah Hoult

Earth and High Heaven Gwethalyn Graham

1944-61

Every Good Deed and Other Stories Dorothy Whipple

1945

Saplings Noel Streatfeild

English Climate by Sylvia Townsend Warner

1946

Marjory Fleming Oriel Malet

Miss Ranskill Comes Home Barbara Euphan Todd

Doreen Barbara Noble

To Bed with Grand Music Marghanita Laski

1947

Tell It to a Stranger Elizabeth Berridge

Hetty Dorval Ethel Wilson

The Blank Wall Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

1947-65

Minnie’s Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

1948

The Casino Margaret Bonham

Family Roundabout Richmal Crompton

Tory Heaven by Marghanita Laski

1949

Little Boy Lost Marghanita Laski

Tea with Mr Rochester Frances Towers

The Far Cry Emma Smith

Because of the Lockwoods Dorothy Whipple

How To Run Your Home Without Help Kay Smallshaw

1950

The Woman Novelist and Other Stories Diana Gardner

Operation Heartbreak Duff Cooper

1951

Two Cheers for Democracy E M Forster

1952

The Village Marghanita Laski

1953

Someone at a Distance Dorothy Whipple

The Victorian Chaise-longue Marghanita Laski

Patience John Coates

Guard Your Daughters Diana Tutton

One Woman's Year Stella Martin Currey

1955

The Winds of Heaven Monica Dickens

1956

Every Eye Isobel English

Madame Solario Gladys Huntington

1957

Plats du Jour Patience Gray & Primrose Boyd

Maman, What Are We Called Now?  Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar

1958

Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting Penelope Mortimer

Lettice Delmer Susan Miles

The Exiles Return Elisabeth de Waal

1962

Midsummer Night in the Workhouse Diana Athill

1963

The Expendable Man Dorothy B Hughes

Vain Shadow Jane Hervey

1965

The Carlyles at Home Thea Holme

The Waters under the Earth John Moore

1966

 Random Commentary Dorothy Whipple

1967

The World that was Ours Hilda Bernstein

Into the Whirlwind Eugenia Ginzburg

1968

It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty Judith Viorst

1973

The Sack of Bath Adam Fergusson

1975

A Woman’s Place: 1910-1975 Ruth Adam

One Afternoon Siân James

1976

Julian Grenfell Nicholas Mosley

Wilfred and Eileen Jonathan Smith

1980

Emmeline Judith Rossner

1981

Still Missing Beth Gutcheon

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