Walter Lionel George

She began writing it after Sussex Gorse, but the pressure of the war caused her to set it aside until she had finished The Challenge to Sirius (which George found tired and flat)

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. When he further...

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. The novel has been much admired by critics. Four...

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 .

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.

SKS made early friendships with the novelists G. B. Stern and Walter Lionel George .

She was helped and encouraged in this work by her friend the novelist Walter Lionel George . This and her next novel were written on the dining-room table of her parents' house, with all...

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.

Where her first two novels had been well reviewed, this one received not a single notice for three weeks (probably on account of its late-autumn publication date). SKS feared she was being passed over or...

Walter Lionel George is rather more noncommital in his comments on Willow's Forge than on SKS 's novels.

This novel brought critical and popular acclaim. SKS said that the weeks following its appearance were some of the happiest of her life. The Times Literary Supplement notice began: No matter what fine work...

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

After Cambridge, AR proceeded to the London School of Economics and began work on a thesis to be entitled Why and how Men are Citizens. Again W. L. George acts like an unfriendly chorus:...

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 ...

According to novelist Walter Lionel George , AR was writing poems and plays when she was ten. It was according to him fortunate that she then gave up literature and, as a sponge flung...