William Archer

The play was tremendously controversial because of its sympathetic treatment of infanticide.William Archer defends the play in his lengthy introduction to the published version, in which he draws attention to his own involvement...

Before she became a successful dramatist in the 1930s, DS made a couple of abortive attempts at writing plays. In 1922 she attempted her first play, Pirate Ships (later renamed Portrait of the Artist's Wives...

Oscar Wilde 's review of this collection for The Woman's World called RMWone of our most artistic workers in poetry. In 1902William Archer called the collection less mature than her later volumes...

William Archer later singled out A South Coast Idyl as showing the wealth of colour on this painter's palette. He also maintained, however, that she had done nothing finer than On the Downs.

Most reviews of Vespertilia and Other Verses were extremely positive, though only one of them (by Norman Gale in Academy) mentioned the other books published under RMW 's different pseudonyms. Gale compared her...

William Archer included RMW alongside A. E. Housman , Rudyard Kipling , Alice Meynell , E. Nesbit , and William Butler Yeats in Poets of the Younger Generation (1902).Her diction is pure, he...