The novel's success was slightly diminished by comparisons drawn between it and Jack Lindsay
's Last Days With Cleopatra, which appeared just a few weeks before it.
Blondel, Nathalie. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life. McPherson & Company.
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It did, however, receive several positive...
Textual Production
Mary Butts
According to Williams
, writing to the Times after her death, MB
was planning another historical novel, this one to deal with the life of the Emperor Julian
, known as Julian the Apostate.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(13 March 1937): 14
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Butts
Butts idealises her childhood home at Salterns on the shores of Poole Harbour as a place of extreme natural beauty that contrasts with the filth of the modern world: Half of Poole Harbour is still...
