A reviewer for The Academy found the novel an unusually clever one, but EFB
's purpose obscure. Unable to believe that Miss Fairfax Byrrne honestly intended to . . . appear as a latter-day apostle...
politics
Fanny Aikin Kortright
Her memories of Bradford included saving her employer's family from probable violence at the hands of a mob during a time of agitation by the Chartists
. The mob were demanding bread; she had had...
Textual Features
Phyllis Bentley
This novel and A Man of His Time are populated by the descendents of characters from Inheritance. Jonathon Oldroyd (a professor at a northern university and son of the David Oldroyd whose thoughts closed...
