{"product_id":"princes-in-the-land","title":"Princes in the Land","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 500px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/Persephone-Books-Harold-Knight-The-Breakfast-Table-1927.jpg?v=1593109785\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e208pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781903155530\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1938, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrinces in the Land\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e by Joanna Cannan has the same theme as PB no. 41, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHostages to Fortune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, a great Persephone favourite: it too is about a woman bringing up a family who is left at the end, when the children are on the verge of adulthood, asking herself not only what it was all for but what was her own life for? Yet the questions are asked subtly and readably.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving shown us how everything is made bearable for Patricia if her children can be at the centre of her life and, more importantly, (because she is not a selfish woman) if they grow up to fulfil her ideals, Joanna Cannan proceeds to show us her happiness being slowly destroyed. The tragedy of the book is that not only do none of the three children live up to their mother’s expectations, she has to watch as each of them takes a path that is anathema to her. Yet of course, she can do nothing about it; nor, sensibly, does she try.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoanna Cannan began writing early, and her first novel was published when she was 26. From 1922 onwards she published a book a year for nearly forty years – novels, detective novels (including the very successful \u003cem\u003eDeath at The Dog\u003c\/em\u003e, which is still in print in America) and the first ‘pony’ book (first in the sense that the focus was on a pony-mad girl rather than a horse or pony), a genre that her daughters Josephine, Diana and Christine Pullein-Thompson were to make very much their own. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrinces in the Land\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e has a thematic bite that Persephone readers will find hard to forget; it is also evocative about Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more on \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrinces in the Land\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, have a look at the Persephone Perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e'Horse's Head' a 1938-9 screen-printed linen by Lucienne Day is the fabric used for \u003cem\u003ePrinces in the Land\u003c\/em\u003e (1938): \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003ethe crux of the novel is the horse-mad mother unable to understand her daughter’s preference for cars. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London\/ Design © Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicture Caption\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e'The Breakfast Table' by Harold Knight, 1927\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joanna Cannan","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098769150259,"sku":"pxl1789694520426","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098769183027,"sku":"pdc1789694520427","price":36.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098769215795,"sku":"njx1789694520428","price":40.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098769248563,"sku":"luy1789694520429","price":42.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/princes-in-the-land_1.jpg?v=1789694524","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/princes-in-the-land","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}