Consequences Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper Dorothy Whipple creates a powerful

Dorothy Whipple creates a powerful argument for the need for women to work

a great Persephone favourite: it too is about a woman bringing up a family who is left at the end

a London publisher

making toffee in the afternoon

Consequences Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper Dorothy Whipple creates a powerfulPREFACE BY NICOLA BEAUMAN 448pp ISBN 9781903155028 EM Delafield is best known as the author of Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930). But her own favourite among her books was Consequences (1919), the deeply felt novel she wrote about the plight of girls given no opportunities apart from marriage. The heroine of Consequences, Alex Clare, is twelve when the book opens in 1889 and is being brought up in Bayswater in London in true Victorian fashion that is,