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.
79
This and her next novel were written on the dining-room table of her parents' house, with all...
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.
xiv-xv
When he further...
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.
79
Stern writes W. L. George. Kaye-Smith's biographer Dorothea Walker
observes that she used the nickname Willy George for...
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:...
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