She drafted the first chapter very soon after receiving her six complementary copies of her first novel; the new working title was Marnie.
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She complained of lack of inspiration, and made a...
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.
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Literary responses
Dorothy Whipple
On its first appearance DW
felt this to be an adequate, rather commonplace novel.
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J. B. Priestley
wrote: A grand novel, with a good shape to it . . . . Your women are...