Jeannette H. Foster

Reviewers, like everyone at the time, were exhausted by the war and not inclined to give the novel enthusiastic reviews. Lionel Hale of The Observer commented only on the dust jacket, imagining that the story...

Biographer David Sweetman considers an episode in the novel between the lesbian nurse Colonna and Valentine, a supervisor of nurses, to be a recreation of MR 's first sexual encounter with Julie Mullard , who...