The reviewers, as quoted at the front of TB
's second novel, were ecstatic. The Daily News said that it goes sparkling like a brook. The Morning Post thought it unusual to come across a...
Literary responses
Mary Renault
English reviews of Purposes were strongly divided. Frank Swinnerton
in The Observer judged it to be of very high calibre,
qtd. in
Sweetman, David. Mary Renault: A Biography. Chatto and Windus, 1993.
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while Ralph Strauss
in the Sunday Times was severely critical and The Spectator mounted...
