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Elizabeth Berridge
like all great writing
the two weeks living in lodgings and going to the beach every day (also wonderfully evoked by EM Delafield in a short story in The Persephone Book of Short Stories)
without the benefit of hindsight
gets swept up in politics
Vain Shadow Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper Elizabeth BerridgePREFACE BY CELIA ROBERTSON 234pp ISBN 9781910263020 This very funny black comedy about a family gathering for a funeral was written in the early 1950s, put away in a drawer for ten years, and then published in 1963. By the time it appeared, women writers had begun to express themselves with more freedom and confidence than ever before writes Celia Robertson in her Persephone Preface. So it was that it came out in the same year as Sylvia Plaths The
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