Winifred Watson's literary career was curtailed by three major events; the depression, ... Persephone Books persevered with the republication of Miss Pettigrew, ...

Winifred Watson, 95, a popular writer in England in the 1930s and early '40s who recently gained a new readership, died of undisclosed causes Aug. 5 in a hospital near her home in northern England.

"Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" is a Cinderella story for grown-ups. The novel, by English author Winifred Watson, became a best-seller when it came out in 1938 (published by Methuen, reprinted ...

Maureen Lipman reads one of her favourite books: Winifred Watson's touching and funny rediscovered bestseller from the 1930s. Omnibus of five episodes abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury.

In 2000 Winifred Watson was rediscovered and tracked down to Newcastle upon Tyne by the publishers Persephone Books, who had chanced upon an ancient copy of Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day.

While doing my tax return, I totted up the number of books I had bought last year and counted a whopping seven copies of Winifred Watson's 1938 novel Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day. Seven! I hadn ...

Bharat Nalluri’s Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, from a screenplay by David Magee and Simon Beaufoy, is based on Winifred Watson’s 1938 novel, which was rapturously received in its 2000 ...