Critic Eileen Sypher
praises this novel's panorama of deteriorating social conditions . . . which surpasses Gissing
's The Nether World (1889) in the starkness and authenticity with which it represents East End life.
Sypher, Eileen. “The Novels of Margaret Harkness”. Turn-of-the-Century Women, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1984, pp. 12-26.
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Margaret Harkness
MH
's socialist novels have begun to be republished since the mid 1980s. Until the 1990s academic interest in her was limited to Engels's famous letter to her and a few chapters in books on...
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Sypher, Eileen. “The Novels of Margaret Harkness”. Turn-of-the-Century Women, Vol.