Mollie Panter-Downes





Mollie Panter-Downes

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born
August 25, 1906

died
January 22, 1997

gender
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Mary Patricia "Mollie" Panter-Downes (25 August 1906—22 January 1997) was a novelist and newspaper columnist for The New Yorker. Aged sixteen, she wrote The Shoreless Sea which became a bestseller; eight editions were published in 1923 and 1924, and the book was serialised in The Daily Mirror. Her second novel The Chase was published in 1925.

After her marriage to Aubrey Robinson in 1927, the couple moved to Surrey, and in 1938 Panter-Downes began writing for the New Yorker, first a series of short stories, and from September 1939, a column entitled Letter from London, which she wrote until 1984. The collected columns were later published as Letters from England (1940) and London War Notes (1972).

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Good Evening, Mrs Craven: T...
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One Fine Day
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London War Notes, 1939-1945
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Ooty Preserved: A Victorian...
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Letter From England
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