Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Sheila Kaye-Smith
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Standard Name: Kaye-Smith, Sheila
Birth Name: Sheila Kaye-Smith
Married Name: Sheila Fry
Pseudonym: E. C. Ticehurst
Writing mostly in the first half of the twentieth century, SKS
published thirty-one novels, in addition to about twenty works in other genres: biography, criticism, saints' lives, country lore, and books of memoirs (one of them disguised as a cookery book). Almost all her novels are set in the Weald of Sussex, with which her name became closely identified. She called Jane Austen
her Bible.
After the appearance of her first three novels, two critics gave AR
a significant place in accounts of the current state of fiction. R. Brimley Johnson
characterised her as a sex-explorer, free from either...
Intertextuality and Influence
Dora Russell
DR
first saw a tamarisk tree as a young girl. This tree grows in Britain, especially near the southern coasts (Sheila Kaye-Smith
had used it for local associations in her title Tamarisk Town...
Occupation
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
She served as the club's organizer and hostess. She intended it as a space where fledgling writers could gather and make contact with established authors. Her friend J. D. Beresford
, novelist, was the club's...
Textual Features
Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
This powerful novel belongs to the rural-inheritance genre, as practised about this time by Mary Webb
and Sheila Kaye-Smith
, and as later mocked by Stella Gibbons
. Like the work of Webb and Kaye-Smith...
Friends, Associates
May Sinclair
Her articles and critical reviews were encouraging for many writers, including T. S. Eliot
.
Scott, Bonnie Kime. Refiguring Modernism. Indiana University Press.
Sheila Kaye-Smith
and GBS
jointly published Talking of Jane Austen, an attempt at an informal record of their endless conversations about a novelist they both loved.
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
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Friends, Associates
G. B. Stern
One of GBS
's close friends was Sheila Kaye-Smith
, with whom she collaborated in works about Jane Austen
. Another was Noël Coward
, who met her after sending her a fan letter, introduced...
Travel
G. B. Stern
Towards the end of the first world war GBS
arrived (together with Sheila Kaye-Smith
) in the artists' and writers' colony at St Merryn in Cornwall. In the early nineteen-thirties she spent a good...
Cultural formation
G. B. Stern
She spent her first Christmas as a Catholic with Sheila Kaye-Smith
and her husband, T. Penrose Fry
, and attended Midnight Mass in the church they had built in their fields, with German prisoners of...
Textual Production
G. B. Stern
This book may quite likely be the successor to a projected biography of Sheila Kaye-Smith
, which was lined up for publication in 1955, but seems to have fallen victim to the financial precariousness of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
G. B. Stern
She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning
's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley
plain?
Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
prelims
She approaches...
Textual Production
G. B. Stern
In 1954 GBS
and Sheila Kaye-Smith
collaborated once again, on He Wrote Treasure Island, The Story of Robert Louis Stevenson.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Stern also wrote introductions to texts of works both by Austen and by Stevenson.
Textual Production
G. B. Stern
This was before she and Sheila Kaye-Smith
published their joint biography of Stevenson, 1954. GBS
was later asked by J. C. Furnas
to write a serious historical monograph on the tramp character, who had now...
Instructor
Noel Streatfeild
Noel's first school, attended as a day-girl, was Hastings and St Leonard's Ladies' College in St Leonards-on-Sea. One of her teachers there was Sheila Kaye-Smith
.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
