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Textual Production | Amber Reeves | According to novelist Walter Lionel George
, AR
was writing poems and plays when she was ten. George, Walter Lionel. A Novelist on Novels. W. Collins Sons. 101-2 |
Textual Features | Amber Reeves | This novel centres on its protagonist, who finds herself at odds with her prosaic and conventional family and who sets out frankly in search of emotional experience. Johnson, R. Brimley. Some Contemporary Novelists (Women). Books for Libraries Press. 109 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Sheila Kaye-Smith | She began writing it after Sussex Gorse, but the pressure of the war caused her to set it aside until she had finished The Challenge to Sirius (which George
found tired and flat) George, Walter Lionel. A Novelist on Novels. W. Collins Sons. 113 |
Literary responses | Amber Reeves | W. L. George
felt that this novel developed AR
's highest quality, the understanding of the ordinary man [sic]. George, Walter Lionel. A Novelist on Novels. W. Collins Sons. 105 |
Literary responses | Amber Reeves | R. Brimley Johnson
found a certain queer simple sincerity in Helen, reflected in the fact that through various sexual adventures she was always faithful to her first love, with whom her quite normal wooing and... |
Literary responses | Amber Reeves | After the appearance of her first three novels, two critics gave AR
a significant place in accounts of the current state of fiction. R. Brimley Johnson
characterised her as a sex-explorer, free from either... |
Literary responses | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Critics, wrote her friend G. B. Stern
years later, took her writing to be masculine in its picaresque gusto and boldness. Some enjoyed this tendency in her first novel, but some were shocked. Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery. 79 Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 23 |
Literary responses | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Where her first two novels had been well reviewed, this one received not a single notice for three weeks (probably on account of its late-autumn publication date). SKS
feared she was being passed over or... |
Literary responses | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Walter Lionel George
is rather more noncommital in his comments on Willow's Forge than on SKS
's novels. George, Walter Lionel. A Novelist on Novels. W. Collins Sons. 116-17 |
Literary responses | Sheila Kaye-Smith | This novel brought critical and popular acclaim. SKS
said that the weeks following its appearance were some of the happiest of her life. Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 85 |
Literary responses | Sheila Kaye-Smith | W. L. George
did not care for the finished form of the heroine he had suggested: he found her a too much of a virago. Anderson, Rachel, and Sheila Kaye-Smith. “Introduction”. Joanna Godden, Dial, p. xi - xviii. xv |
Literary responses | Amber Reeves | W. L. George
discerned in this novel the profound hopelessness of youth, and called its realism remarkable. George, Walter Lionel. A Novelist on Novels. W. Collins Sons. 104 |
Leisure and Society | Amber Reeves | Soon after she came down from Cambridge the novelist Walter Lionel George
met AR
at a London party also attended by Ford Madox Hueffer
, Wyndham Lewis
, May Sinclair
, and Violet Hunt
... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sheila Kaye-Smith | SKS
published her best-known work, Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight, another regional novel, for which the idea was suggested to her by W. L. George
. Child, Harold H. “Sussex Gorse”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 737, p. 106. 106 Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery. 79 Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 15 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sheila Kaye-Smith | SKS
published another Sussex novel to a scheme suggested by Walter Lionel George
, the choice of a woman instead of a man as protagonist: Joanna Godden. At this point biographer Dorothea Walker
attaches... |
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