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Titles by publication date
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
Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther
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