The New Magdalen Category_Grey Books/Politics or come back to a

or come back to a Surrey where the grocer’s boy delivers

The Fortnight in September by RC Sherriff was first published in September 1931

’ As Mrs Oliphant herself said about the husband in Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond

This is the first biography of one of the most important English writers of the last century

the author

The New Magdalen Category_Grey Books/Politics or come back to aPREFACE BY JAMES BOBIN 416pp ISBN 9781910263280 Wilkie Collins is rightly regarded as one of the nineteenth centurys most eminent writers. Although many Persephone readers will know The Woman in White and The Moonstone, he in fact published twenty one other novels. The New Magdalen (1873), Persephone Book No. 138, is about a fallen woman, Mercy Merrick, attempting to rehabilitate her character and her reputation; and the (often reprehensible and