Someone at a Distance

Someone at a Distance

First edition
Author	Dorothy Whipple
Language	English
Genre	Drama
Publisher	John Murray
Publication date	1953
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

Someone at a Distance is a 1953 novel by the British writer Dorothy Whipple. ^{[1] [2]} A young French woman engaged as companion to an elderly lady ruthlessly sets out to seduce the son of her employer and take him away from his wife. ^[3] It was the final novel of Whipple who had been a popular writer in the 1930s and 1940s. It was republished in 1999 by Persephone Books. A dramatization was broadcast on BBC Radio Four in 2022. ^[4]

References

1. Sponenberg p.276
2. "Forgotten authors No 31: Dorothy Whipple". The Independent. 22 October 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
3. Lethbridge p.304
4. "Drama - Someone at a Distance (1/2) - BBC Sounds". Archived from the original on 26 June 2022.

Bibliography

• Lethbridge, Lucy. Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times. W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
• Sponenberg, Ashlie. Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950. Springer, 2006.
• Turner, Nick. Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.