Walter Lionel George

According to novelist Walter Lionel George , AR was writing poems and plays when she was ten. It was according to him fortunate that she then gave up literature and, as a sponge flung...

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. She seeks unsuccessfully and to some degree...

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)

W. L. George discerned in this novel the profound hopelessness of youth, and called its realism remarkable.R. Brimley Johnson implied that its conclusions (about the ordinariness and stupidity of heroines) were...

W. L. George felt that this novel developed AR 's highest quality, the understanding of the ordinary man [sic].R. Brimley Johnson felt it would have been better if it had avoided tragedy and...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Walter Lionel George is rather more noncommital in his comments on Willow's Forge than on SKS 's novels.

This novel brought critical and popular acclaim. SKS said that the weeks following its appearance were some of the happiest of her life. The Times Literary Supplement notice began: No matter what fine work...

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. The novel has been much admired by critics. Four...

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 ...

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 .

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.