Book Society

Diary of a Provincial Lady received positive reviews, though some critics also drew attention to its limitations. Henry Seidel Canby praised EMD in The Saturday Review of Literature as one of the really skilful novelists...

CFC led an active life. She remarked that the political unrest of 1822 affected her because she had ordinarily my father's business to transact. She took part in the Book Society while she lived...

LC 's Fenny (a Book Society choice, and sometimes called her finest novel), was set in or near Florence during the Second World War and the years just before and after it.

Leonard Woolf's decision proved a mistake. The book was not only praised to the skies by young, advanced reviewers, but also made the secondary Book of the Month for May by the newly-formed Book Society

The Ginger Griffin was a Book Society choice, as were three later novels by AB .

The volume was a Book Society recommendation.Roger Fulford , reviewing it for the Times Literary Supplement, situated it among a crowd of works looking back from difficult times to an easier and...