The Spectator, August 17th, 2002
MINNIE'S ROOM
by Mollie Panter-Downes
Persephone, 10, pp. 125, ISBN 190315524X
Mollie Panter-Downes (1906-97) for many years was The New Yorker's most prolific contributor resident in England. American readers must have thought she represented the very quintessence of Englishry. However, her English father was a major in the Royal Irish Regiment, until killed in France, in 1941. Her mother, who brought her up in Sussex, was Irish. PanterDownes spent her adult life in Surrey, but only her subject matter was entirely English.
From 1938 to 1984, she wrote 852 short stories, reports, reviews a...
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