Winifred Watson's literary career was curtailed by ... making writing impossible. Persephone Books persevered with the republication of Miss Pettigrew, and the book found its way on to Hollywood ...

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.

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!

is based on Winifred Watson’s 1938 novel, which was rapturously received in its 2000 reprinting by Persephone Books. Watson (1907-2002) wrote six novels, and as co-producer (with Nellie ...

Andrew Hunter Murray, Alice Lowe and Harriett Gilbert on books by Winifred Watson, Miranda July and Margaret Drabble. From 2017. Show more Comedy writer Andrew Hunter Murray and writer ...