EMD
dedicated Charles RexTo G. T. S.
in remembrance of a winter day: it was written during their engagement.
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Ethel M. Dell
EMD
married Gerald Tahourdin Savage
, DSO, a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Army Service Corps
; it was a love match on both sides, though Ethel's sister
suspected he was after her money.
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
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Textual Features
Ethel M. Dell
The novel traces the great love of Frances and Arthur; Penelope Dell
reads them as Ethel and her new husband
, with the tyrannical Bishop of Burminster drawn from Ethel's sister Ella
, his weak...