About her turn-of-the-century years and her first group of literary friends, ES
wrote later, we fell in and out of love with and without disaster, like other people.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
Accounts vary as to how EW
's first serious publications came about. One is that in 1936 she showed three stories to Reggie Tupper
, a friend with an appreciation for literature. He encouraged her...
Literary responses
Theodora Benson
Richard Sunne
wrote in the New Statesman and Nation of Shallow Water, Miss Benson's soufflé is perfect, and she serves it under a magical salamander, so that each piece retains its lightness and its...
Publishing
Ethel Wilson
The interest in a film adaptation nonetheless proved profitable in the end, since it eventually led Macmillan, London
, to reconsider an English imprint of the novel. In September 1947, a contract was signed for...
The Rector's Daughter showcases once again FMM
's ability to make literature and her own experiences immediately relevant, as well as her outspokenness. Condensing the friction between the dying Victorian world and the modern world...