Private Worlds (Bottome novel) explained

Private Worlds
Author:	Phyllis Bottome
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Genre:	Drama
Publisher:	Harmondsworth (UK) Houghton Mifflin (US)
Release Date:	1934
Media Type:	Print

Private Worlds is a 1934 novel by the British writer Phyllis Bottome. It is set in a psychiatric hospital. It was the seventh most popular work of fiction published in America that year.^[1]

Adaptation

It was adapted into a 1935 American film of the same title directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer and Joel McCrea.^[2]

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• Hayward, Rhodri. The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1870-1970. A&C Black, 2014.
• Kimyongür, Angela. Women in Europe between the Wars: Politics, Culture and Society. Routledge, 2017.

Notes and References

1. Hayward p.107
2. Goble p.49