The Rector’s Daughter
Persephone Books £13
This novel, first published by the Hogarth Press in 1924 at the author’s own expense, became an instant success. The book was so popular that Boots’ lending libraries restricted the number of borrowers allowed.
Perhaps part of its appeal was that it depicted a way of life that was all but obsolete, even then. Mary Jocelyn leads an uneventful existence in her father’s rectory in
