I claimed that this was no challenge at all, so I'll back that up:
30 day books-by-women challenge! 30 books, one per day, that you’ve read that were written by women.
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Day 19:The Weather in the Streets - Rosamond Lehmann (read 2025)

Colour photo of Rules Restaurant, London, on a souvenir promotional card, probably from the 1960s, which shows the cosy, junk-filled dining room with cream-coloured, picture-covered walls and numerous waiters in black coats serving tables.

Page 175 from "The Weather in the Streets" by R. Lehmann, 1936. Lovers Olivia & Rollo go to Rules Restaurant for a late supper. The narrator (Olivia) describes the old-fashioned, cluttered space and the people there. (Sorry couldn't figure out how to "copy text.")

For a temporary refuge from a grey February day (not to mention *all that other stuff*) let's repair to Rules (est. 1798) for a postcoital snack with Olivia & Rollo.

L: souvenir display card, probably 1960s
R: page from The Weather in the Streets, by
Rosamond Lehmann, 1936

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Love your reviews - thanks!
Will add both books to my list - now that I've read my first #RosamondLehmann ! The quotes reminded me a lot of Lehmann -

#DustyAnswer2024 Mariella-
1. "It was funny how he fell in love with me when he grew up. Somebody in my life has loved me anyhow."
2. "Im not stupid with animals if I am with people."
3. Later loved Peter.
4. Wrong to destroy this letter that is a woman's heartfelt written work. #RosamondLehmann

#DustyAnswer2024 Week 5 begins Aug. 29th-
"At twenty, her only spiritual anchorage is in her own courage, and her power to look straight at her own acts." -Ethel Wallace Hawkins, The Atlantic, Dec.1927. #RosamondLehmann #ModernWoman #Cambridge #Slowread #GrowingUp

#DustyAnswer2024 Day 25, 8/25- Ch.13, p.210 to p.217 (end of ch.13 & part III). #RosamondLehmann

[Image Description: A black-and-white photograph of a middle-aged woman and the words Letting I dare not wait upon I would, youth had gone by; and now the candour of her desires was muddied, her spark of spirit spent.]

#SundaySentence from Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann

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#DustyAnswer2024 #RosamondLehmann Day 24, 8/24- Ch. 12, p.204 to p.210 (end of ch.12)

"It was Tennyson who said: (italics) The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls . . . " My Norton edition calls to me- #Tennyson #Sea #Poetry

#DustyAnswer2024 Week 4 begins Aug. 22nd -
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#DustyAnswer2024 Week 1 begins August 1st-
Epigraph:
"Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!"
-George Meredith
(FYI. Lehmann's mother was an American from New England!) #RosamondLehmann

"Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!"
-George Meredith
(epigraph to DUSTY ANSWER by Rosamond Lehmann)

Slow read begins Aug. 1st, 2024! #DustyAnswer2024 #RosamondLehmann #STWTheCorner2024