Walter Lionel George

Standard Name: George, Walter Lionel
Used Form: W. L. George

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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 London School of Economics and began work on a thesis to be entitled Why and how Men are Citizens.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Again W. L. George acts like an unfriendly chorus:...
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 ...
Textual Production Amber Reeves
According to novelist Walter Lionel George , AR was writing poems and plays when she was ten.
George, Walter Lionel. A Novelist on Novels. W. Collins Sons.
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It was according to him fortunate that she then gave up literature and, as a sponge flung...
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.
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R. Brimley Johnson implied that its conclusions (about the ordinariness and stupidity of heroines) were...
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.
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R. Brimley Johnson felt it would have been better if it had avoided tragedy and...
Textual Features Amber Reeves
This novel centres on its protagonist, who finds herself at odds with her prosaic and conventional family and who sets out frankly in search of emotional experience.
Johnson, R. Brimley. Some Contemporary Novelists (Women). Books for Libraries Press.
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She seeks unsuccessfully and to some degree...
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Sheila Kaye-Smith
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)
George, Walter Lionel. A Novelist on Novels. W. Collins Sons.
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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, p. xi - xviii.
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When he further...
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.
Anderson, Rachel, and Sheila Kaye-Smith. “Introduction”. Joanna Godden, Dial, p. xi - xviii.
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The novel has been much admired by critics. Four...
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, p. 106.
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Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
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Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne.
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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...
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.
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Stern writes W. L. George. Kaye-Smith's biographer Dorothea Walker observes that she used the nickname Willy George for...

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George, Walter Lionel. A Novelist on Novels. W. Collins Sons, 1918.