Someone at a Distance
1953 novel
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Author | Dorothy Whipple |
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Language | English |
Genre | Drama |
Publisher | John Murray |
Publication date | 1953 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Someone at a Distance is a 1953 novel by the British writer Dorothy Whipple.[1][2] A French au pair ruthlessly sets out to seduce the husband of her employer and steal him away from her.[3] It was the final novel of Whipple who had been a popular writer in the 1930s and 1940s. It was republished in 1999 by Persephone Books. A dramatization was broadcast on BBC Radio Four in 2022.[4]
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Bibliography
- Lethbridge, Lucy. Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times. W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
- Sponenberg, Ashlie. Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950. Springer, 2006.
- Turner, Nick. Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.
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