An early study of FAS
's writings was A Star of India by Daya Patwardhan
, complete with a bibliographical list of her works and investigation of her real-life sources.
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981.
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Commentators are agreed on the astonishing range and scope of FAS
's brief stories. Daya Patwardhan
, her first major critic, wrote that they present almost all the types of the teeming millions.
qtd. in
Steel, Flora Annie. “Introduction”. The Best Short Stories of Flora Annie Steel, edited by Saros Cowasjee et al., Indus, 1995, p. i - xvi.