Edward Shanks

The volume attracted positive attention from critics: Edward Shanks praised it and Frank Whitaker called her a poet of genius.

MA 's agent Paul Reynolds , calling it a satire of Victorian life, doubted this book would suit the American taste. Sure enough, the New York Times gave it a very unfavourable review to...

This novel incited much discussion in artistic and literary circles. Particularly debated was the fact that RW sets her story in Germany during World War One without ever mentioning or hinting at the war or...

Though Edward Shanks found this work something of a disappointment, he observed that no one could have mistaken it for anything but the work of a writer of high talent and higher promise.More...

In her diary on 3 May 1921, Virginia Woolf , who had not yet read the novel, accurately predicted that it would win the Hawthornden Prize. Six days later, she recorded her disappointment in it:...

This book garnered RW much praise. The Times Literary Supplement printed a rave review which concluded, the whole book is a tour de force as a reconstruction of a creative artist's intense hunger for more...

The Times Literary Supplement felt that this novel fell short of RW 's previous ones. It found the effect on Storm of von Markheim's affair with Lotte to be unconvincing. It may be typical of...

The Times Literary Supplement reviewed this novel harshly. It judged the story fairly dull and pointless, and took issue with Jill's girlish narrative tone: Miss Wilson's slangy unsophistication is not simplicity; it is merely an...

This novella was sceptically received. New York Herald Tribune Books called it a nonsense melodrama of the passions done in the approved expressionist manner . . . Miss Wilson's is a real talent that seems...

RW 's novels, tackling the complex philosophical and social issues that faced people in European countries in the years after the Great War, have been largely, if not entirely, forgotten. Her death at thirty-nine years...