Marguerite's husband, Armiger Barclay
, having criticised the plan for this novel as not suitable for family reading, found it when finished daring and provocative (qualities which its author denied).
Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett.
57, 66-7
The preliminary pages...
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Hélène Barcynska
One of the earliest joint publications by Marguerite
and Armiger Barclay
was an anonymous sentimental novel which the Bodleian Library
catalogue dates 1910, tentatively but improbably, since they did not marry till 1911. It is...