MH
's socialist novels have begun to be republished since the mid 1980s. Until the 1990s academic interest in her was limited to Engels's famous letter to her and a few chapters in books on...
Literary responses
Margaret Harkness
Critic Eileen Sypher
praises this novel's panorama of deteriorating social conditions . . . which surpasses Gissing
's The Nether World (1889) in the starkness and authenticity with which it represents East End life.
Sypher, Eileen. “The Novels of Margaret Harkness”. Turn-of-the-Century Women, Vol.
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, No. 2, pp. 12-26.
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Sypher, Eileen. “The Novels of Margaret Harkness”. Turn-of-the-Century Women, Vol.