Tea or Books? #107: Do We Care What Char...

Books in books and Stella Gibbons – welcome to episode 107!

In the first half, we continue our ‘do we care…’ series with ‘do we care what characters read?’ By which we mean we’re looking at the books that characters read, and what that tells us about them. In the second half, we compare two novels by Stella Gibbons – The Bachelor and Enbury Heath.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode:

The Good Companions by J.B. Priestley
An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim
A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor
Heat Wave by Penelope Lively
Instructions for a Heat Wave by Maggie O’Farrell
Heat Lightning by Helen Hull
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Provincial Lady series by E.M. Delafield
The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
William Shakespeare
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Brontes Went to Woolworths by Rachel Ferguson
Mrs Miniver by Jan Struther
Harriet Hume by Rebecca West
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Baedeker Guides
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
Michael Arlen
William Burroughs
Warwick Deeping
E.M. Dell
Gilbert Frankau
Pamela Frankau
John Galsworthy
Philip Gibbs
J.B. Priestley
Sapper
Hugh Walpole
F.R. and Q.D. Leavis
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radclyffe
Horace Walpole
Lover’s Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald
A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood
A Snowfall of Silver by Laura Wood
Agatha Christie
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Penelope Lively
Penelope Mortimer
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
Walt Whitman
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Virginia Woolf in Manhattan by Maggie Gee
A House in the Country by Ruth Adam
Bassett by Stella Gibbons
Westwood by Stella Gibbons
Tea Is So Intoxicating by Mary Essex
Late and Soon by E.M. Delafield
A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor