Rachel Anderson

Critic Rachel Anderson considers that the religous or quasi-religious element in SKS 's characters—their larger-than-life passions and obsessions, their quests and self-lacerations and rebirths—link her work with that of such romance-writers as Florence Barclay ,...

The novel opens on the funeral of the protagonist's father in October 1897. Its Sussex setting encompasses it; Joanna never travels as far away as London, and, as Rachel Anderson phrases it, SKSwrites untiringly...

W. L. George persuaded her to set this book in Sussex (instead of the Channel Island setting she was planning) on grounds of her identification with Sussex in the public mind. When he further...

After beginning her trip smoothly, Diana is surprised by a Sheik, Ahmed Ben Hassan, who kidnaps and rapes her. But EMH provides a troubling confluence of passion and male aggression, carefully blurring the line between...

It relates the religious conversion of a rowdy farmer who turns itinerant evangelical preacher, but cannot rid himself of his obsession with a gipsy woman. SKS makes use here of Sussex dialect, and...

She purportedly used the pseudonym E. M. Hullfor fear of disgracing her family. She wrote her first novel for personal distraction while her husband was away during the First World War; she...