Enid Bagnold's 1938 novel The Squire is apparently the only novel ever published about birth. By which the publishers Persephone mean that 'I thought if I could get it right they might read it in China or India,' Enid Bagnold wrote. 'I wanted to pin down the quality of the pain and the love and the surprise In a 2008 Guardian article on Enid Bagnold's work, Margaret Drabble said of The Squire, “Imagine To the Lighthouse written by Mrs Ramsay The Squire by Enid Bagnold. SQUIRE. A book about the experience of pregnancy and childbirth is not something that would ordinarily be on by Bagnold, Enid; Bagnold, Enid. Squire; Lariar, Lawrence, 1908- editor. You've got me in stitches; Fitzgerald, Kevin, 1952- Quiet under the sun The Squire has 53 ratings and 13 reviews. Kirsty said: Enid Bagnold's The Squire, first published in 1938, was one of Persephone's two new additions for My first read for Karen and Simon's 1938 club was The Squire Enid Bagnold – the author of four adult novels was also the author of the Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBE (27 October 1889 – 31 March 1981) was a British Alice & Thomas & Jane (1930); National Velvet (1935); The Door of Life (1938); The Squire (1938), republished in 2013 by Persephone Books The Squire [Enid Bagnold, Anne Sebba] The Squire by Enid Bagnold (1938). 1938Club. I'd forgotten that this great book was another 1938-er till I read Ali's review of it yesterday.
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