Elizabeth Jane Howard, Brian Moore, and authors’ personal lives – welcome to episode 138!

In the first half of the episode, we do a question that Lindsey suggested: do we care about authors’ personal lives? It takes us to questions both of ethics and of privacy. In the second half, we pit The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore against The Beautiful Visit by Elizabeth Jane Howard.

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The books and authors we mention in this episode are:

Recommended! by Nicola Wilson

Hugh Walpole

J.B. Priestley

Sylvia Lynd

Clemence Dane

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

Blue Postcards by Douglas Bruton

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico

Stasiland by Anna Funder

Crooked Cross by Sally Carson

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer

Virginia Woolf

Stella Gibbons

Enid Blyton

Neil Gaiman

Mary Lawson

The Other Elizabeth Taylor by Nicola Beauman

Jane Austen

Dorothy L. Sayers

Don’t Look Round by Violet Trefusis

Echo by Violet Trefusis

Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey

Elena Ferrante

Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

J.K. Rowling

Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson

Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater

John Keats

Percy Shelley

Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann

Invitiation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann

R.C. Sherriff

The Doctor’s Wife by Brian Moore

The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore

O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson