Persephone Books is a female-run publishing house and London bookstore that publishes out-of-print 20th century female authors. It's a quintessential example of the kind of business built of passion, intellect and saleability that inspired Girl on the Street and What Women Make.
On my way from Brompton to Bloomsbury to interview Nicola Beauman, Persephone's founder, I had to quickly change gears from innovation and novelty-seeking to the section of my brain that strikes even clos....

