Harold H. Child

FTJ 's strong, wilful, and playful personality, in addition to her beauty, attracted many suitors. Her admirers included publisher William Heinemann and Sir Alfred Mond (owner of the English Review). She described Harold Child

Child wrote that this was a murder story but no mere murder story because MBL had chosen not to set the reader a puzzle but to probe the detail of characters whose guilt was already...

She anticipated that this book would be less popular than its predecessor. In England, however, Harold Hannyngton Child , who had first reviewed her for the Times Literary Supplement almost forty years before this...

Harold Hannyngton Child , reviewing for the Times Literary Supplement, reported that this was quite unlike most novels of nihilism, which represent the obvious laced with the sensational. ELV , he wrote, succeeded in...

Harold Hannyngton Child in the Times Literary Supplement supposed that the author was a man. He proffered the paradox that the novel was never for a moment exciting although it was continuously interesting. He...

Harold Hannyngton Child , an established champion of HHR , had by this time learned that she was a woman. He was still as admiring as ever of her daring comicality of realism. He praised...

The Times Literary Supplement reviewer, Harold Child , praised this novel for demonstrating how BH had made great strides in the technique of her art.He was particularly impressed by her characters, who emerged...

Harold Hannyngton Child , in the Times Literary Supplement, thought the stories well reflected Kipling's belief that a children's writer ought to take care not to be talking down to his superiors.

Lawless described The Book of Gilly as an analysis of nostalgia for childhood: the little boy's adventure is only a sort of cloak or screen to a series of small problems—as how impressions strike us...

Harold Hannyngton Child in the Times Literary Supplement gave this work high praise: it deserves careful reading, he said, as a strong and dignified piece of work, with, as the phrase goes, a great deal...

Again Harold Hannyngton Child approved this work, calling it the story of a great passion told with delicacy and power, a combination which is none too common. In 1923 MBL wrote that years after...

MBL 's regular Times Literary Supplement reviewer, H. Child , observed that only one of the stories, According to Meredith, had a thesis (that of a legal time-limit for marriages), and that this was...

The Times Literary Supplement reviewer, again Harold Hannyngton Child , admired the character-drawing and wrote that MBL , unlike most female novelists, was equally good at men and at women, and that the double plot...

The Times Literary Supplement reviewer, again Harold Hannyngton Child , praised the careful avoidance of sensationalism, and the opening and close of the story; he felt that the middle part, when other characters fill in...

The Times Literary Supplement continued to employ the same reviewers for MBL . De la Mare expressed a certain disappointment with Jane Oglander on 16 March 1911; Harold Child welcomed the turn back from murder...