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

she can do nothing about it

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

The Blank Wall is not only a fast-paced crime novel

Set in small-town New England

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,