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.Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Donnes (Persephone Classics)

by: Mollie Panter-Downes

April 24, 2008
I don't normally choose to read short stories but this collection holds together beautifully as they all centre around the stresses suffered by those on the home front in World War Two. What I really like about them is the author's careful, sympathetic and wry observation of human nature. Somehow they seem to slip down as happily as cocoa might have under wartime rationing, and I am sure I will be re-reading them many times.
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.One Fine Day (Virago modern classics)

by: Mollie Panter-Downes

June 05, 2003
One fine day is the experience of one day in 1946 of Laura Marshall (and to a lesser extent her husband Stephen and daughter Vicky). It's a hot, perfect summer day and Laura's thoughts range over the past and present, particularly the recent past. The war is over and she finds herself "remembering" this fact again and again as she realises that peace has finally come, and the threats of invasion and death have gone. As a middle-class woman whose life has been completely changed by the war, Laura can't help remembering how things used to be - servants at every turn, the garden perfect, her hair not grey, meals appearing on the table without her ineffectual efforts. As Stephen says "All his life he had expected to find doors opened if he rang, to ... Read More:
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.Minnie's Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

by: Mollie Panter-Downes

June 22, 2002
Mollie Panter-Downes' stories show the decline of the middle classes in Britain after WWII. Her stories show the effects of the social and economic changes the war brought, the problem of getting servants, the hardships of being on a fixed income, the falling standards of young people who had experienced more freedom and responsibility than their parents could ever have dreamed of.They are honest yet unsentimental stories of people who suddenly don't fit in. In "The exiles", Colonel and Mrs Stanbury decide to emigrate to an outpost of "Empire" in the hope that they can keep up their position in society as they are no longer able to do at home. In "Minnie's room", the Sothern family are devastated when their cook, Minnie, fulfills her dreams of leaving ... Read More:
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.Ooty Preserved: Victorian Hill Station in India

by: Mollie Panter-Downes

1985-03
Mollie Panter-Downes' stories show the decline of the middle classes in Britain after WWII. Her stories show the effects of the social and economic changes the war brought, the problem of getting servants, the hardships of being on a fixed income, the falling standards of young people who had experienced more freedom and responsibility than their parents could ever have dreamed of.They are honest yet unsentimental stories of people who suddenly don't fit in. In "The exiles", Colonel and Mrs Stanbury decide to emigrate to an outpost of "Empire" in the hope that they can keep up their position in society as they are no longer able to do at home. In "Minnie's room", the Sothern family are devastated when their cook, Minnie, fulfills her dreams of leaving ... Read More:
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.Good Evening, Mrs Craven: the Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

by: Mollie Panter-Downes

September 30, 1999
I don't normally choose to read short stories but this collection holds together beautifully as they all centre around the stresses suffered by those on the home front in World War Two. What I really like about them is the author's careful, sympathetic and wry observation of human nature. Somehow they seem to slip down as happily as cocoa might have under wartime rationing, and I am sure I will be re-reading them many times.
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.One Fine Day (Virago Modern Classics)

by: Mollie Panter-Downes

1986-02
One fine day is the experience of one day in 1946 of Laura Marshall (and to a lesser extent her husband Stephen and daughter Vicky). It's a hot, perfect summer day and Laura's thoughts range over the past and present, particularly the recent past. The war is over and she finds herself "remembering" this fact again and again as she realises that peace has finally come, and the threats of invasion and death have gone. As a middle-class woman whose life has been completely changed by the war, Laura can't help remembering how things used to be - servants at every turn, the garden perfect, her hair not grey, meals appearing on the table without her ineffectual efforts. As Stephen says "All his life he had expected to find doors opened if he rang, to wake up to the ... Read More:
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.At The Pines; Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney

by: Mollie Panter-Downes

1971
One fine day is the experience of one day in 1946 of Laura Marshall (and to a lesser extent her husband Stephen and daughter Vicky). It's a hot, perfect summer day and Laura's thoughts range over the past and present, particularly the recent past. The war is over and she finds herself "remembering" this fact again and again as she realises that peace has finally come, and the threats of invasion and death have gone. As a middle-class woman whose life has been completely changed by the war, Laura can't help remembering how things used to be - servants at every turn, the garden perfect, her hair not grey, meals appearing on the table without her ineffectual efforts. As Stephen says "All his life he had expected to find doors opened if he rang, to wake up to the ... Read More:
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.London War Notes

by: Mollie Panter-Downes

September 04, 1972
One fine day is the experience of one day in 1946 of Laura Marshall (and to a lesser extent her husband Stephen and daughter Vicky). It's a hot, perfect summer day and Laura's thoughts range over the past and present, particularly the recent past. The war is over and she finds herself "remembering" this fact again and again as she realises that peace has finally come, and the threats of invasion and death have gone. As a middle-class woman whose life has been completely changed by the war, Laura can't help remembering how things used to be - servants at every turn, the garden perfect, her hair not grey, meals appearing on the table without her ineffectual efforts. As Stephen says "All his life he had expected to find doors opened if he rang, to wake up to the ... Read More:
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.London War Notes 1939-1945

by: Mollie Panter-Downes

1971
One fine day is the experience of one day in 1946 of Laura Marshall (and to a lesser extent her husband Stephen and daughter Vicky). It's a hot, perfect summer day and Laura's thoughts range over the past and present, particularly the recent past. The war is over and she finds herself "remembering" this fact again and again as she realises that peace has finally come, and the threats of invasion and death have gone. As a middle-class woman whose life has been completely changed by the war, Laura can't help remembering how things used to be - servants at every turn, the garden perfect, her hair not grey, meals appearing on the table without her ineffectual efforts. As Stephen says "All his life he had expected to find doors opened if he rang, to wake up to the ... Read More:
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.Watling Green,

by: Mollie Panter-Downes

1943
One fine day is the experience of one day in 1946 of Laura Marshall (and to a lesser extent her husband Stephen and daughter Vicky). It's a hot, perfect summer day and Laura's thoughts range over the past and present, particularly the recent past. The war is over and she finds herself "remembering" this fact again and again as she realises that peace has finally come, and the threats of invasion and death have gone. As a middle-class woman whose life has been completely changed by the war, Laura can't help remembering how things used to be - servants at every turn, the garden perfect, her hair not grey, meals appearing on the table without her ineffectual efforts. As Stephen says "All his life he had expected to find doors opened if he rang, to wake up to the ... Read More:
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