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.
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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.
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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...