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Walter Lionel George
Standard Name: George, Walter Lionel
Used Form: W. L. George
Connections
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Education | Amber Reeves | She had set her heart on philosophy when as a schoolgirl she read in Kant
about reason vanquishing religion. A report from her tutor, J. N. Keynes
(father of the more famous John Maynard Keynes |
Education | Amber Reeves | After Cambridge, AR
proceeded to the |
Friends, Associates | Sheila Kaye-Smith | SKS
made early friendships with the novelists G. B. Stern
and Walter Lionel George
. Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958. 79 Stern writes W. L. George. Kaye-Smith's biographer Dorothea Walker
observes that she used the nickname Willy George for... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sheila Kaye-Smith | W. L. George
persuaded her to set this book in Sussex (instead of the Channel Island setting she was planning) on grounds of her identification with Sussex in the public mind. Anderson, Rachel, and Sheila Kaye-Smith. “Introduction”. Joanna Godden, Dial, 1984, p. xi - xviii. xiv-xv |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sheila Kaye-Smith | SKS
published her best-known work, Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight, another regional novel, for which the idea was suggested to her by W. L. George
. Child, Harold H. “Sussex Gorse”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 737, 2 Mar. 1916, p. 106. 106 Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958. 79 Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne, 1980. 15 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sheila Kaye-Smith | SKS
published another Sussex novel to a scheme suggested by Walter Lionel George
, the choice of a woman instead of a man as protagonist: Joanna Godden. At this point biographer Dorothea Walker
attaches... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sheila Kaye-Smith | She was helped and encouraged in this work by her friend the novelist Walter Lionel George
. Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958. 79 |
Leisure and Society | Amber Reeves | Soon after she came down from Cambridge the novelist Walter Lionel George
met AR
at a London party also attended by Ford Madox Hueffer
, Wyndham Lewis
, May Sinclair
, and Violet Hunt
... |
Literary responses | Sheila Kaye-Smith | This novel brought critical and popular acclaim. SKS
said that the weeks following its appearance were some of the happiest of her life. Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne, 1980. 85 |
Literary responses | Sheila Kaye-Smith | W. L. George
did not care for the finished form of the heroine he had suggested: he found her a too much of a virago. qtd. in Anderson, Rachel, and Sheila Kaye-Smith. “Introduction”. Joanna Godden, Dial, 1984, p. xi - xviii. xv |
Literary responses | Amber Reeves | W. L. George
discerned in this novel the profound hopelessness of youth, and called its realism remarkable. George, Walter Lionel. A Novelist on Novels. W. Collins Sons, 1918. 104 |
Literary responses | Amber Reeves | W. L. George
felt that this novel developed AR
's highest quality, the understanding of the ordinary man [sic]. George, Walter Lionel. A Novelist on Novels. W. Collins Sons, 1918. 105 |
Literary responses | Amber Reeves | R. Brimley Johnson
found a certain queer simple sincerity in Helen, reflected in the fact that through various sexual adventures she was always faithful to her first love, with whom her quite normal wooing and... |
Literary responses | Amber Reeves | After the appearance of her first three novels, two critics gave AR
a significant place in accounts of the current state of fiction. R. Brimley Johnson
characterised her as a sex-explorer, free from either... |
Literary responses | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Critics, wrote her friend G. B. Stern
years later, took her writing to be masculine in its picaresque gusto and boldness. Some enjoyed this tendency in her first novel, but some were shocked. Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958. 79 Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne, 1980. 23 |
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Texts
George, Walter Lionel. A Novelist on Novels. W. Collins Sons, 1918.