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. Editor Small, Helen, J. M. Dent, 1995.
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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.
qtd. in
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.
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As critic Helen Small
remarks, Harvest departs from the pattern whereby...
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. Editor Small, Helen, J. M. Dent, 1995.
xxxii
In 1896...
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. Editor Small, Helen, J. M. Dent, 1995.
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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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Texts
Dowie, Ménie Muriel. Gallia. Editor Small, Helen, J. M. Dent, 1995.
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.