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Family and Intimate relationships | Ménie Muriel Dowie | His daughter Rosamond Nina Lehmann
, who was thus first cousin once removed to MMD
, became celebrated as a novelist. According to scholar Helen Small
, Rosamond Lehmann, who knew MMD
late in Dowie's... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ménie Muriel Dowie | Scholar Helen Small
writes of the divorce: For Norman, as a Member of Parliament and a well-known political journalist, it must have been deeply humiliating. For Dowie, it meant public disgrace and private misery. Dowie, Ménie Muriel. Gallia. Small, HelenEditor , J. M. Dent, 1995. xxxiv |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ménie Muriel Dowie | FitzGerald was known in the mountaineering world for competitiveness and arrogance. He had been married before, to a woman who died only about a year after the wedding. He was five years younger than Dowie... |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | Arnold Bennett
excoriated MAW
's typical heroines as harrowing dolls and fantasised a brutal fate for them in the form of gang rape. Small, Helen. “Mrs. Humphry Ward and the First Casualty of War”. Women’s Fiction and the Great War, edited by Suzanne Raitt and Trudi Tate, Clarendon, 1997, pp. 18 -46. 39 |
Literary responses | Ménie Muriel Dowie | The resulting article, in scholar Helen Small
's estimation, combine[d] a sense of the romance of the event (the pathos of the beautiful young widow) with a startling line in brutal realism. Dowie, Ménie Muriel. Gallia. Small, HelenEditor , J. M. Dent, 1995. xxxii |
Literary responses | Ménie Muriel Dowie | Although MMD
herself preferred The Crook of the Bough, critic Helen Small
contends that Love and his Maskis in many ways the more original book. Dowie, Ménie Muriel. Gallia. Small, HelenEditor , J. M. Dent, 1995. xxxiii |
Literary responses | Ménie Muriel Dowie | Scholar Helen Small
considers The Hint o' Hairst to be a rather nostalgic return to origins on MMD
's part, since Dowie, as she had noted in a footnote to the story's epigraph, was Scottish... |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | Critic Helen Small
reads this, and MAW
's other war novels, as probing questions of government censorship and information control which were sidestepped in propagandistic writings: what are the moral implications of withholding the truth... |
Reception | Ménie Muriel Dowie | Despite the overwhelmingly positive reception she received at the height of her popularity at the turn of the century, and recent interest in the New Woman novel, MMD
has attracted remarkably little recent critical notice... |
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