Despite her evident passion regarding the material, John Gray
wrote to EW
on 30 April 1957 to say that The Vat and the Brew was not publishable. He noted that the characters were impossible to...
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Ethel Wilson
After rejecting The Vat and the Brew, John Gray
nonetheless encouraged EW
to continue writing stories and indicated that publishing a collection might be possible. In a letter dated 20 November 1958, EW
sketched...