Anderson, Rachel, and Sheila Kaye-Smith. “Introduction”. Joanna Godden, Dial, 1984, p. xi - xviii.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Sheila Kaye-Smith | 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
,... |
Literary Setting | Sheila Kaye-Smith | 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... |
Publishing | Sheila Kaye-Smith | 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. Anderson, Rachel, and Sheila Kaye-Smith. “Introduction”. Joanna Godden, Dial, 1984, p. xi - xviii. xiv-xv |
Textual Features | E. M. Hull | 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... |
Textual Features | Sheila Kaye-Smith | 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, British Book News. British Council. (1950): 368 |
Textual Production | E. M. Hull | She purportedly used the pseudonym E. M. Hullfor fear of disgracing her family. Melman, Billie. Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties. Macmillan, 1988. 90 Beauman, Nicola. A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39. Virago, 1983. 189 |
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