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Literary responses | E. M. Delafield | Punch gave the novel a very positive review, which Heinemann
used in their advertising: An almost uncannily penetrating study of the development of a poseuse. Told with remarkable insight and a care that is both... |
Literary responses | Ethel Sidgwick | Critic R. Brimley Johnson
, comparing the four Sidgwick novels lined by Violet's family, said that Hatchwaysis a stronger story in its main plot; but rather weaker in the side issues. Johnson, R. Brimley. Some Contemporary Novelists (Women). Books for Libraries Press, 1967. 104 |
Literary responses | Ethel Sidgwick | ES
's interest in the interaction of different national cultures, and in the issue of what it means to be English, caused some commentators to liken her to Henry James
. R. Brimley Johnson
in... |
Literary responses | Amber Reeves | W. L. George
discerned in this novel the profound hopelessness of youth, and called its realism remarkable. George, Walter Lionel. A Novelist on Novels. W. Collins Sons, 1918. 104 |
Literary responses | Amber Reeves | W. L. George
felt that this novel developed AR
's highest quality, the understanding of the ordinary man [sic]. George, Walter Lionel. A Novelist on Novels. W. Collins Sons, 1918. 105 |
Literary responses | Amber Reeves | R. Brimley Johnson
found a certain queer simple sincerity in Helen, reflected in the fact that through various sexual adventures she was always faithful to her first love, with whom her quite normal wooing and... |
Literary responses | Amber Reeves | After the appearance of her first three novels, two critics gave AR
a significant place in accounts of the current state of fiction. R. Brimley Johnson
characterised her as a sex-explorer, free from either... |
Literary responses | Elinor Mordaunt | R. Brimley Johnson
particularly admired the portrait of the mother in The Pendulum, Johnson, R. Brimley. Some Contemporary Novelists (Women). Books for Libraries Press, 1967. 111 Johnson, R. Brimley. Some Contemporary Novelists (Women). Books for Libraries Press, 1967. 47 |
Literary responses | Elinor Mordaunt | |
Publishing | Sarah Green | The literary-critical preface, unusually for such a satirical work, bears her intials. Green says she has reasons for concealing her name, but will affix the REAL initials of that name to this advertisement. .... |
Reception | Elinor Mordaunt | Overall Johnson
, writing in 1920, admired in EM
's work a somewhat severe aloofness and grim humour. She reminded him of Sheila Kaye-Smith
, though he did not find in her the masculinity he... |
Textual Features | Ethel Sidgwick | The heroine of A Lady of Leisure, Violet Ashwin later Shovell, tries to move beyond the confines of her class by becoming a working dressmaker. R. Brimley Johnson
regarded her enthusiastically as daring in... |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | The editor of this second selection of Mitford's letters was Henry Chorley
. Her Correspondence with Charles Boner
and John Ruskin followed in 1914. R. Brimley Johnson
published another selection of her letters in 1925... |
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