51. Rosamond Lehmann — Dusty Answer with Lucy Scholes
Rosamond Lehmann
In this week’s episode, our guest is Lucy Scholes, author of the monthly column Re-Covered for The Paris Review and host of the Ourshelves podcast from Virago Press. We discuss Rosamond Lehmann’s wonderful 1927 debut novel, Dusty Answer. Incredibly popular in its day, this book also caused quite the scandal—which we tell you all about, of course!
Discussed in this episode:
Lucy Scholes’s “Re-Covered” column in The Paris Review
Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Girton College, University of Cambridge
Invitation to the Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann
The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann
The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann