On its first appearance DW
felt this to be an adequate, rather commonplace novel.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
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J. B. Priestley
wrote: A grand novel, with a good shape to it . . . . Your women are...
Literary responses
Dorothy Whipple
A reader at Curtis Brown
praised DW
's very shrewd and natural gift of depicting her middle-class characters, while Lord Gorell
at John Murray
wrote: Much her best work and the former was good.
qtd. in
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
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Publishing
Mary Butts
The Cornhill editor, Lord Gorell
, rejected the article for the surprising reason that the Bloomsbury Group was not well known in England.
Bagg, Camilla, and Nathalie Blondel. “Editors’ Preface: Bloomsbury”. Modernism/Modernity, Vol.
5
, No. 2, Apr. 1998, pp. 31-2.
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Garrity, Jane. Step-daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary. Manchester University Press, 2003.