Walter Lionel George

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...

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...