MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY (1938)

This 1938 comedy became one of Persephone’s conspicuous revival successes, so it is no longer a secret discovery. A struggling governess enters a glamorous woman’s chaotic day and discovers capacities that respectability had kept hidden. The illustrated Persephone edition preserves the fairy-tale briskness. Its class and sexual assumptions belong to its period; the generous excitement of female friendship remains the attraction.