Florence Leclercq

Like ET 's first book, this was praised by distinguished but not unanimous voices: Elizabeth Bowen found an exciting distinction about every page, and Rosamond Lehmann noted the stripped, piercing feminine wit and called ET

Julia Strachey and Pamela Hansford Johnson both slammed A Wreath of Roses.ET herself felt that it expanded her range, but that the result was not successful: that she had produced a cold...

Reviewers were divided in their responses to Blaming, as they had been to some of ET 's earlier novels. Her old nemesis Walter Allen is said to have blocked its choice for the...

Two monographs have been devoted to ET : one in the Twayne series by Florence Leclercq, another by N. H. Reeve , 2008. Leclercq 's analysis left a good deal to be desired. She was...