The ILP
's New Leader called this novel far removed . . . from the mass conflicts of the age.
Croft, Andy. “Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, pp. 205-25.
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The party leader, James Maxton
, suggested that EM
ought to write instead the...
Literary responses
Rosamond Lehmann
Elizabeth Bowen
published an appreciative review of this novel in The New Statesman and Nation on 11 July 1936.