Rediscovery of FMM
was fostered by Sybil Oldfield
, who in 1984 published an extensive account of Mayor's life and works (which she narrated in parallel with those of Mayor's contemporary Mary Sheepshanks
). During...
Literary responses
Margaret Oliphant
Merryn Williams
observed in an afterword to the Persephone
edition that both these stories deal with the terribly destructive effects of middle-aged passion.