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Someone at a Distance

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Someone at a Distance
First edition
AuthorDorothy Whipple
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
PublisherJohn Murray
Publication date
1953
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

Someone at a Distance is a 1953 novel by the British writer Dorothy Whipple.[1][2] A young French woman engaged as companion to an elderly lady ruthlessly sets out to seduce the son of her employer and take him away from his wife.[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. A dramatization was broadcast on BBC Radio Four in 2022.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Sponenberg p.276
  2. ^ "Forgotten authors No 31: Dorothy Whipple". The Independent. 22 October 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  3. ^ Lethbridge p.304
  4. ^ "Drama - Someone at a Distance (1/2) - BBC Sounds".

Bibliography

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  • 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.