Good evening Mrs. Craven : the wartime stories of Mollie Panter-Downes /

Explores many aspects of English domestic life during the war including separation, sewing parties, fear, evacuees sent to the country, obsession with food, and the social revolutions of wartime.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Panter-Downes, Mollie, 1906-1997
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Persephone, 2008.
Series:	Persephone classics.
Subjects:	World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > England > Fiction. England > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect social > Angleterre > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Angleterre > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Manners and customs. Social aspects. England. 1900-1999 short stories. Short stories. Historical fiction. Fiction. Nouvelles.

Table of Contents:

Letter from London, 3 September 1939
Date with romance
Meeting at the Pringles'
Mrs. Ramsay's war
In clover
It's the real thing this time
This flower, safety
As the fruitful vine
Lunch with Mr. Biddle
Battle of the Greeks
Fin de Siècle
Literary scandal at the sewing party
Goodbye, my love
War among strangers
Combined operations
Good evening, Mrs. Craven
The hunger of Miss Burton
It's the reaction
Cut down the trees
Year of decision
The danger
The waste of it all
Letter from London, 11 June 1944.