Rachel Anderson

Standard Name: Anderson, Rachel

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Sheila Kaye-Smith
Critic Rachel Anderson considers that the religous or quasi-religious element in SKS 's characters—their larger-than-life passions and obsessions, their quests and self-lacerations and rebirths—link her work with that of such romance-writers as Florence Barclay ,...
Literary Setting Sheila Kaye-Smith
The novel opens on the funeral of the protagonist's father in October 1897. Its Sussex setting encompasses it; Joanna never travels as far away as London, and, as Rachel Anderson phrases it, SKSwrites untiringly...
names E. M. Hull
  • BirthName: Edith
    Romance critic Rachel Anderson states that EMH 's real name was Ethel, but all other sources give Edith.
    Anderson, Rachel. The Purple Heart Throbs. Hodder and Stoughton, 1974.
    185
    Maud Henderson
  • Nickname: Diana
    This, says Anderson , was the name that EMH preferred to go by.
    Anderson, Rachel. The Purple Heart Throbs. Hodder and Stoughton, 1974.
    185

  • Married: Winstanley Hull
Publishing 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, 1984, p. xi - xviii.
xiv-xv
When he further...
Textual Features E. M. Hull
After beginning her trip smoothly, Diana is surprised by a Sheik, Ahmed Ben Hassan, who kidnaps and rapes her. But EMH provides a troubling confluence of passion and male aggression, carefully blurring the line between...
Textual Features Sheila Kaye-Smith
It relates the religious conversion of a rowdy farmer who turns itinerant evangelical preacher, but cannot rid himself of his obsession with a gipsy woman. SKS makes use here of Sussex dialect,
British Book News. British Council.
(1950): 368
and...
Textual Production E. M. Hull
She purportedly used the pseudonym E. M. Hullfor fear of disgracing her family.
Melman, Billie. Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties. Macmillan, 1988.
90
She wrote her first novel for personal distraction
qtd. in
Beauman, Nicola. A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39. Virago, 1983.
189
while her husband was away during the First World War; she...

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Anderson, Rachel, and Sheila Kaye-Smith. “Introduction”. Joanna Godden, Dial, 1984, p. xi - xviii.
Anderson, Rachel. The Purple Heart Throbs. Hodder and Stoughton, 1974.