The Victorian Chaise-longue Quiz

Posted on | May 5, 2010 | 7 Comments

Nicola Beauman of Persephone Books very generously gave Verity and I new copies of books for give-aways during this Persephone Reading Week.  Lydia from the Lamb’s Conduit Street shop and myself carefully selected a few; Doreen by Barbara Noble was to mark the forthcoming seventieth anniversary of the Blitz (please see Verity’s WWII quiz), The Closed Door and Other Stories by Dorothy Whipple (see our welcome posts) because Whipple is Persephone’s most popular author and yet the stories the least referred to of her books, another (forthcoming this week) was more left-field, and The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski.

I opted for the Laski because it is the Persephone that a number of new-to-Persephone readers choose to read (it was my second) and because it was recently reprinted so hasn’t been available for people to purchase. over the last number of months.  This give-away will be ideal for 1) Persephone newbies yet to read/own a Persephone 2) those who have read and loved the book but do not own a copy of their own 3) those Persephone lovers who have not read nor bought the book.  All you have to do to win the prize copy of The Victorian Chaise-longue is email me the answers (using the contact option on top right, unless you already have my email address) to the following quiz questions by 12pm BST on Sunday 9th May.  This give-away is open worldwide; I also have a few of the above postcard and will happily post to some random runners-up.  Answers to the questions can be found on the Persephone website and/or posts from the first Persephone Reading Week (which can be found in blog archives or by clicking on the Persephone Reading Week tag) and from this week’s posts.

1. Which number of book in the catalogue is The Victorian Chaise-longue?

2. Who painted the above postcard?

3. How many titles written by Marghanita Laski do Persephone publish?

4. What is the pattern of the endpaper to The Victorian Chaise-longue taken from?

5. How many reviews of The Victorian Chaise-longue were there during last year’s Persephone Reading Week?

6. Where is the novella set?

7. What are the names of both female protagonists in The Victorian Chaise-longue?

8. Who wrote the preface to The Victorian Chaise-longue?

9. Which famous female novelists did Marghanita Laski write books about?

10. Which Laski novel did I read for the first Persephone Reading Week last year and which am I intending to read this week?

Good luck!

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