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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, 1918.
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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, 1967.
109
She seeks unsuccessfully and to some degree...
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, 1918.
101-2
It was according to him fortunate that she then gave up literature and, as a sponge flung...