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Mollie Panter-Downes

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Born: August 24 1906

Died: 2121 01 19971997

Mary Patricia "Mollie" Panter-Downes 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 and London War Notes .

After visiting Ootacamund, in India, she wrote about the town, known to all as Ooty, in her New Yorker columns. This material was later published as Ooty preserved.

Mollie Panter-Downes died in Compton, Surrey, aged 90.

Selected works:

- The Shoreless Sea
- The Chase
- My Husband Simon
- One Fine Day
- Minnie's Room Republished by Persephone Books in 2002.
- Good Evening, Mrs Craven Republished by Persephone Books in 1999.
- Ooty preserved: a Victorian hill station .

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Mollie Panter-Downes

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Books from Mollie Panter-Downes

Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

The Persephone Book of Short Stories

London War Notes, 1939-1945

My Husband Simon

Ooty Preserved: A Victorian Hill Station in India

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 1997

One Fine Day

The Chase

London War Notes, 1939-1945

Minu abikaasa Simon

The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories

The New Yorker book of war pieces : London 1939 to Hiroshima 1945