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Reception 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, 1982, pp. xi - xxiii; 275.
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Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
60: 409
It became popular with the public...
Reception Angela Thirkell
This, like all its immediate predecessors, met with excellent reviews, even though Hugh Walpole regretted its lack of plot.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth, 1977.
120
James Agate uncharacteristically wrote: All the time I was reading it I purred like my...
Reception Jan Struther
The US edition of Mrs. Miniver became a roaring success long before the film was thought of. It was a Book-of-the-Month Club choice, and the publishers were eager to get JS to tour America to...
Textual Production Pearl S. Buck
Fighting Angel relies heavily on the reminiscences which PSB 's father divulged to her in the last years of his life, when his former reticence was at last dissolved and in turn dissolved her resentment...
Textual Production Isak Dinesen
Dorothy Canfield Fisher contributed an introduction. Blixen had begun writing in earnest on her Kenyan farm, and from at least 1926 had entertained the idea of publication as a means of alleviating her financial...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. M. Delafield
In her use of the diary form with prosaic narrator, EMD was probably influenced by George and Weedon Grossmith 's The Diary of a Nobody (1892). The autobiographical fiction, set in a small Devon village...

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