Tea or Books? #94: Do We Care Where Authors Live? and Dusty Answer vs Frost in May

Rosamond Lehmann, Antonia White, and authors’ houses – welcome to episode 94!

In the first half of this episode, we do a topic suggested by Gillian – do we care where authors live? That is, do we want to visit their houses – we talk through authors’ houses we’ve visited and those we’d like to visit.

In the second half, we compare two coming-of-age novels: Frost in May by Antonia White and Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

The Last of Summer by Kate O’Brien
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier
No Place Like Home by Beverley Nichols
Jane Austen
Bronte sisters
The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell
Stephen Leacock
Virginia Woolf
William Wordsworth
This Golden Fleece by Esther Rutter
Robert Burns
Beatrix Potter
Dante
Emily Dickinson
Louisa M. Alcott
The Provincial Lady in America by E.M. Delafield
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Hardy
Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie
A.A. Milne
E.M. Delafield
Barbara Comyns
Marilynne Robinson
They Knew Mr Knight by Dorothy Whipple
As For Me and My House by Sinclair
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
A Very Great Profession by Nicola Beauman
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
Thrown to the Woolfs by John Lehmann
The Sincerest Form by E.M. Delafield
Olivia by Olivia
The Half Crown House by Helen Ashton
The Foolish Gentlewoman by Margery Sharp