Walter Lionel George

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...

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)

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...

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...