Walter Lionel George

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...

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...

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...