Someone at a Distance

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.

Someone at a Distance
AuthorDorothy Whipple
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
Publication date
1953
Media typePrint

References

  1. Sponenberg p.276
  2. "Forgotten authors No 31: Dorothy Whipple". The Independent. 2011-10-22. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
  3. Lethbridge p.304

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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