Walter Lionel George

W. L. George felt that this novel developed AR 's highest quality, the understanding of the ordinary man [sic].R. Brimley Johnson felt it would have been better if it had avoided tragedy and...

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...

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)

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. She seeks unsuccessfully and to some degree...

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...