Reggie Oliver

SG 's neighbourhood was considered to be working- and lower-middle class, but her father's professional status set her family apart from their surroundings. According to Reggie Oliver , SG 's biographer and nephew, her close...

Such earthy regionalists—who include Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence , as well as Webb and Kaye-Smith —become the butt of SG 's satire in Cold Comfort Farm. Reggie Oliver suggests that...

The collection did not fare well with critics, but Reggie Oliver believes that For Those in the Depths is one of SG 's best stories.

SG 's biographer, Reggie Oliver , speculates that the lesbian writer figure, Dorothy Hoad, may be based on Dorothy Wellesley . The lesbian love scenes sometimes parody Radclyffe Hall 's The Well of Loneliness.