Esther Smith

The Fox had been serialized in The Dial the previous year. Critic Esther Smith has argued that the germ of this novella came from Mary Augusta Ward 's posthumous novel Harvest, April 1920.

Esther Smith argues that D. H. Lawrence radically recast this novel in Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1928.

The novel draws on MAW 's knowledge of the work of land girls (members of the Women's Land Army )—such as those led by her daughter Dorothy at Stocks—and the recent transformation of...