In August 1950 CM
was on holiday in Brittany with a writer friend, Inez Holden
, working all morning and again from five till eight on their novels. She told Walter Strachan
: I am...
Literary responses
Sylvia Townsend Warner
The novel was nominated for the 1926 Prix Femina, and was the first selection of the American Book-of-the-Month Club
, an organisation newly formed that year.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Editorial Materials”. Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems, edited by Claire Harman, Carcanet New Press, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
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Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research.
Other friendships made now or later included many with distinguished women, like Ivy Compton-Burnett
(whom she found kinder to me than she apparently was to most other people),