{"product_id":"out-of-the-window","title":"Out of the Window","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-caption alignright\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/31968756-9680-4b9b-a5b6-7a0cc81fe50d_465x279_bf2ecff3-1b0e-47ee-b69c-8a350cb58e6b_480x480.jpg?v=1697227904\" alt=\"Madeline Linford with her colleagues at the Manchester Guardian.\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/31968756-9680-4b9b-a5b6-7a0cc81fe50d_465x279_bf2ecff3-1b0e-47ee-b69c-8a350cb58e6b.jpg?v=1697227904\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePREFACE BY MICHAEL HERBERT\u003cbr\u003e284pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781910263389\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOut of the Window\u003c\/strong\u003e is a quietly radical 1930 novel about sexual attraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt begins when Ursula, the indulged daughter of an affluent middle-class doctor living in a village in Cheshire, attends a neighbour’s party. There she meets Kenneth, an engineer from Manchester, who is raising money for the wives and children of local miners striking for better working conditions; he is ‘absurdly good looking… the other men in the room seemed limp and colourless beside him.’ The two of them marry against their parents’ wishes but, when they return from honeymoon, they soon realise that marriage does not only involve love, but also housework. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOut of the Window\u003c\/strong\u003e is full of revealing detail about Manchester in the 1920s, not least social inequality and the role of the trade unions; it is about women’s lives not long before the watershed of WWII; and it is also steeped in what we at Persephone Books call ‘Domestic Feminism’. The main theme, however – and it is no coincidence that \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOut of the Window\u003c\/strong\u003e was written the year after \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLady Chatterley’s Lover\u003c\/em\u003e was \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enot\u003c\/em\u003e published – is whether sexual attraction is a sensible basis for marriage. As Ursula observes a few months after her wedding, “You know, there ought to be some other solution for girls in love. It isn’t fair that they should be tied all their lives and have children, just because they once felt passionate about some man and were blind to everything else. The marriage service should be postponed until they had lived together for a while and the glamorous side of it had got less.” Hear, hear, we shout from the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe author of \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOut of the Window\u003c\/strong\u003e, Madeline Linford, was the first editor of the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e’s or, as it was then, the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eManchester\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e’s Women’s Page. She joined the paper in 1913 when she was 18 and a decade later was appointed an editor. Yet somehow, in addition to her journalism, she also found time to write five novels, including \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOut of the Window.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA roller printed cretonne designed by Constance Irving (1879-1964) for William Foxton Ltd in the late 1920s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicture Caption\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMadeline Linford with her colleagues at the \u003cem\u003eManchester Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Madeline Linford","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098802245939,"sku":"fpv1789694936381","price":24.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098802278707,"sku":"rwt1789694936382","price":35.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098802311475,"sku":"kpg1789694936383","price":35.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098802344243,"sku":"tcf1789694936384","price":43.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/out-of-the-window_1.png?v=1789694944","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/out-of-the-window","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}