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wrote later that at no time in her life did she make intimate friends easily. Most people she had to do with she liked up to a certain point only, but she could count...
Lane
and Harland
were centres of literary social life in London. EDA
had many friends among writers, many of them New Women. They included Evelyn Sharp
, and Constance Smedley
(who found her entirely sincere...
Netta Syrett
called her letters in general some of the most amusing I ever read.
Syrett, Netta. The Sheltering Tree. Geoffrey Bles, 1939.
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Occupation
Constance Smedley
Since the Langham Place Group
had provided a social space for women in 1860, several organizations had already challenged the flourishing institution of men's clubs. The Lyceum Club
came on the scene at a time...
Textual Production
Evelyn Sharp
Lane accepted the novel in November 1894 for his series called after George Egerton
's Keynotes.
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
Before Harland accepted it, Irremediable had been rejected by Blackwood's on the grounds that marriage was a sacrament and could not be so summarily treated,
qtd. in
Clarke, John Stock. Ella D’Arcy. 21 Mar. 2019.
and more generally from dislike of the bleak tone of...
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Texts
Syrett, Netta. The Sheltering Tree. Geoffrey Bles, 1939.