JS
wrote the novel while staying with her aunt Dorothy Bussy
's family at Roquebrune in France, informally separated from her first husband, Stephen Tomlin
.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983.
113, 116
After finishing her manuscript, she sent...
Dedications
Noel Streatfeild
NS
published an adult novel entitled Saplings (dedicated to her mother), which was chosen by Persephone Books
for reprinting in 2000.
Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne, 1994.
64-5
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.
Publishing
Dorothy Whipple
She decided to write this one in preference to a different potential novel which was also pressing to be written. She made two false starts before she could feel the story was launched. For use...
Publishing
Dorothy Whipple
She had the idea for this book about a country house family, requiring detailed knowledge of cricket, while sitting in the hot sun shortly after her previous novel appeared. The new idea made her pulse...
Publishing
Dorothy Whipple
It was re-issued by Persephone Books
in March 1999 with deliberate statements that its critical undervaluing amounted to the extreme rather than the merely usual.
Literary responses
Dorothy Whipple
DW
was an unacknowledged favourite of Ivy Compton-Burnett
and evidently of Elizabeth Taylor
too, since Taylor borrowed for her novel Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont from the opening of a story among Whipple's papers, which...
Textual Features
John Strange Winter
Winter's other writing commitments prompted her to cease editing Winter's Weekly in September 1894, but it continued publication until 1895.
Winter wrote that she was handing over to a sister writer with capable hands,
qtd. in
Youngkin, Molly. “"Independent in Thought and Expression, Kindly and Tolerant in Tone": Henrietta Stannard, Golden Gates, and Gender Controversies in Fin-de-Siècle Periodicals”. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol.