BM
was understandably devastated by the rejection of Gollancz
.
Miller, Jane Eldridge, and Betty Miller. “Preface”. Farewell Leicester Square, Persephone Books, 2000, p. vii - xix.
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She had told a friend it would be not only her best novel to date but one of her publisher's best ever too.
Miller, Jane Eldridge, and Betty Miller. “Preface”. Farewell Leicester Square, Persephone Books, 2000, p. vii - xix.
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Literary responses
Betty Miller
Rosamond Lehmann
praised this novel in a letter as intelligent, brave enough to tackle a serious moral problem, written with wonderful vividness and sensitivity, and excellent in its character-drawing of men as well as women...
Literary responses
Zoë Fairbairns
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer, Jane Miller
, complained that Marcus and his unimaginative self-absorption were depressing.
Miller, Jane Eldridge. “Other New Novels”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3532, 6 Nov. 1969, p. 1274.
1274
She was sceptical of his potential as a future writer given that he liked neither life nor...
Literary responses
Evelyn Sharp
Biographer Angela V. John
feels that this is the work for which ES
is best remembered today.
John, Angela V. “’Behind the Locked Door’: Evelyn Sharp, suffragette and rebel journalist”. Women’s History Review, Vol.
12
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 5-13.
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Jane Eldridge Miller
borrowed its title for her Rebel Women: Feminism, Modernism, and the Edwardian Novel, 1994.
Literary responses
Sarah Grand
Elaine Showalter
brought SG
to the attention of late-twentieth-century New Woman and feminist criticism in A Literature of Their Own, 1977, where she discussed The Heavenly Twins and The Beth Book.
Mangum, Teresa. Married, Middlebrow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
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Since...
Textual Production
Sarah Grand
SG
first appeared in print with her novelTwo Dear Little Feet: a morality tale about the dangers posed to women's health by fashionable, too-tight boots.