Critic Elaine Campbell
reads this novel as a precursor to Doris Lessing
's The Summer Before the Dark, 1973. Campbell sees EN
's courage—in writing a novel of a middle-aged woman's second chance at...
Literary responses
Elma Napier
Critic Elaine Campbell
reads EN
's collection of travel-stories as belonging to the tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson
and Alec Waugh
.
Critic Elaine Campbell
commends EN
's handling of social inequalities: issues of sexual and racial social imbalance are presented with a poise and control that preserve the novel from deteriorating into a polemical tract.
Recuperative efforts by critics of Caribbean women's literature, such as Elaine Campbell
, Evelyn O'Callaghan
, Alison Donnell
, and Sarah Lawson Welsh
, have recovered EN
's work and placed it within the literary...