Naomi Royde-Smith

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Standard Name: Royde-Smith, Naomi
Birth Name: Naomi Gwladys Holroyd Smith
Self-constructed Name: Naomi Royde-Smith
Indexed Name: N. G. Royde-Smith
Indexed Name: Naomi Gwladys Royde-Smith
Married Name: Naomi Gwladys Milton
NRS 'a most important literary work included serving as midwife to the writings of others. She also published prodigiously, from early in the twentieth century: nearly forty novels, besides short stories, anthologies and compilations, biographies, reviews and criticism, four plays, and books about railways and other forms of transport.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Mary Martha Sherwood
She began it in connection with the writing game shared with her sister: the exchange of letters in the voice of French characters, modelled on those of Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis in Adelaide and Theodore; or...
Textual Production Kate O'Brien
KOB followed her first play (the previous year) with a second, The Bridge, opening this time at the Arts Theatre Club .
Contemporary Authors online gives the date of the first performance as 31...
Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
Between 1928 and 1934, DLS edited three volumes under the series title Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror. Her introductions to these collections offered a scholarly history of the genre of detective...
Textual Features Mary Martha Sherwood
She writes too about social issues in India. Of Indian orphans left to die she demands: Who can describe, or even imagine, the cruelties which prevail in the dark corners of the earth? It...
Textual Features Joan Aiken
Naomi Royde-Smith had used the same title (Jane Fairfax: A New Novel) in 1940 for a fiction of the same kind. Aiken's novel, like Royde-Smith's, goes back to Jane's childhood; unlike her predecessor...
Reception Mary Martha Sherwood
Naomi Royde-Smith discussed this book and thought it in most respects a very good book for boys,
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan.
58ff
though she dismissed its sequel, The History of John Marten (whose hero is grown up and a...
Reception Rose Macaulay
To celebrate the appearance of her collection, RM threw a party at her flat to which she ambitiously invited Walter de la Mare . He attended, as did her publisher for this book, Frank Sidgwick
Publishing Elizabeth Bowen
The first story which EB completed was Breakfast, published in her first collection. She had not yet read the most respected short stories of recent years; her biographer Victoria Glendinning says she was very...
Publishing Mary Martha Sherwood
William Darton issued, in a juvenile-reader format with coloured frontispiece, MMS 's novel Caroline Mordaunt; or, The Governess, which twentieth-century critic Naomi Royde-Smith thought her simply best novel.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan.
51
Author summary Mary Martha Sherwood
MMSwrote and signed more than 350 books (mostly for children, but including several adult novels), and left almost a score of fat volumes of diary. Some of her children's books, despite their uncompromisingly hell-fire...
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Martha Sherwood
Naomi Royde-Smith thinks this was written some time before publication. It went through a whole series of American editions up as late as 1870, and was translated into German in 1841.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan.
108
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Literary Setting Rose Macaulay
This novel, dedicated to the Philistines, the Barbarians, the Unsociable, has one of them as protagonist: the non-intellectual, extrovert, outdoor woman Denham Dobie, whose remote South American upbringing has done nothing to prepare her for...
Literary responses Radclyffe Hall
A number of writers rallied in support of RH . E. M. Forster and Leonard Woolf drafted a letter protesting the suppression of The Well of Loneliness. Its signatories included Bernard Shaw , T. S. Eliot
Literary responses Mary Martha Sherwood
Virginia Woolf 's Kitty Malone in The Years has read The History of the Fairchild Family. Naomi Royde-Smith dedicated her book on MMS to her parents, who in the year 1884 when a bachelor...
Literary responses Mary Martha Sherwood
Naomi Royde-Smith thought equally highly of this novel both as child and as adult reader.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan.
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Texts

Royde-Smith, Naomi. A Balcony. E. Benn, 1927.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. All Star Cast. Macmillan, 1936.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Children in the Wood. Constable, 1928.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. For Us in the Dark. Macmillan, 1937.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Jake: A Novel. Macmillan, 1935.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Jane Fairfax. Macmillan.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Love and a Birdcage. R. Hale, 1960.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Madam Julia’s Tale. V. Gollancz, 1932.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Melilot. R. Hale, 1955.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Outside Information. Macmillan, 1941.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Roger Packman Hinks. Pictures and People. V. Gollancz, 1930.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. Pilgrim from Paddington. A. Barker, 1933.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. “Proof”. HorrorMasters.com.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Altar-Piece. Macmillan, 1939.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Bridge. Gollancz, 1932.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Delicate Situation. V. Gollancz, 1931.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Double Heart. Hamish Hamilton, 1931.
Royde-Smith, Naomi et al. The Idol and the Shrine. Hollis and Carter, 1949.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Island: a Love Story. Constable, 1930.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Lover. Constable, 1928.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Private Life of Mrs. Siddons. V. Gollancz, 1933.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan, 1946.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Tortoiseshell Cat. Constable, 1925.
Royde-Smith, Naomi. The Whistling Chambermaid. R. Hale, 1957.
Royde-Smith, Naomi, and A. Savory. Van Lords. A. Barker, 1934.