Its early extant draft shows how much this novel changed in the course of revision towards its final form. Its autobiographical origins are reflected in the fact that ME
sometimes by accident wrote Peggy for...
Publishing
Margiad Evans
To finish writing it, she moved temporarily out of the family home to stay alone at a country pub some three miles away.
She dedicated it to her father
(explaining that he does not...
Publishing
Margiad Evans
She wrote this book, at least the later parts of it, while she was actually going through the bodily experiences—epilepsy, pregnancy—that it describes.
Evans, Margiad. A Ray of Darkness. Arthur Barker, 1952.
129, 133
The dedication reads: This manuscript is hopefully and precociously dedicated...
Reception
Laura Riding
Again most of the reviews turned out to be excellent. Reviewers recognized the farcical quality intended, and though the Daily Telegraph considered the book silly and nasty, others used words like briskness and economy,adroit...
Textual Production
Laura Riding
Barker's publishing firm
was new, and its owner, who visited them in Mallorca, responded eagerly to Riding's charisma and her plans. He published several of her works over the next couple of years, but in...
Textual Production
Laura Riding
This was the first book LR
published with the new firm of Arthur Barker
in London. She took some trouble to disguise identities, since Barker was worried about potential libel actions. The Book Society
backed...
Timeline
July 1932: Arthur Barker founded his own publishing...