Dear Persephone Reader,
The excellent Liss Llewellyn directed this beautiful painting (Portrait of Joyce Peters c. 1926 by Gilbert Spencer) towards our inbox and for a moment we fantasised about buying it. But it’s beyond our means, so no. But isn’t it marvellous and isn’t the fabric of her jacket beautiful?
They are also selling this painting of a house in Downshire Hill, Hampstead which is next door to the one lived in by Elizabeth Jenkins, so there is a faint Persephone connection/reason for putting it on the Letter apart from it being a simply stunning painting. But to own this one would need to be even richer. (Oh there’s another, very very tenuous connection, which is that the house is opposite the one lived in by Fred Uhlman and we always have his incredible short novel Reunion among the fifty books we wish we had published.)
