A Bookstore of One’s Own

Credit: Charlotte Hadden for The New York Times

I have visited this shop many times when I've stayed in Bloomsbury. It's located on the charming Lamb's Conduit, home also to one of my favourite pubs, The Lamb.

Persephone began 20 years ago as a mail-order publishing business reprinting forgotten titles from an era in women’s fiction beloved by its founder, Nicola Beauman. Having fortuitously come into a small inheritance from her father, she opened the business with a list of 12 books that first year. 

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