Of Do Come and Bring Your Fiends [sic], in which a young woman with a recent Oxford
degree finds and loses love, June Shepherd
wrote the pain leaps clear from these pages.
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Literary responses
Doreen Wallace
June Shepherd
found all the characters in this curious novel dislikable: the parents cold, the grandmother self-seeking, vain, and rather silly, and the child a selfish juvenile horror.
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Publishing
Doreen Wallace
Giles Dixey
privately printed at Oxford a booklet of DW
's work entitled Days and the Years: Poems; eighteen of these are included in an appendix in June Shepherd
's biography of Wallace.
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Reception
Doreen Wallace
She presented a copy of each of her books to her husband
, inscribed: R. H. Rash, with love from the author.
qtd. in
Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
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But he and most of her family never read her books, though...
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Texts
Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
Wisker, Alistair et al. “Introduction: A Literary Appreciation”. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner, Edwin Mellen Press, p. xvii - xxi.