Almost sixty years after The Lodger was published, Samuel Hynes
, in a sweeping dismissal of fiction by women in the years before the First World War, named it as the only title still surviving:...
Literary responses
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Samuel Hynes
in the Times Literary Supplement called this book a delight and its author a remarkable woman, yet he introduced his notice with some sweeping, casually sexist comment on that monstrous regiment of writing...