Jane Garrity

Jane Garrity has maintained that Butts in this essay reveals her own aesthetic conservatism by fetishizing the alleged authenticity of the modernist artifact, by implication positioning herself as a crusader for the real, the natural...

Although her work received mixed reviews, MB was generally recognized as an important if eccentric literary figure during her lifetime, and she was highly praised by other modernist writers, including Ezra Pound , Marianne Moore

Lolly Willowes is still in print, and, according to Claire Harman was still STW 's best-known work at the latter part of the twentieth century. Alison Lurie wrote the introduction for an edition in the...

More recently, however, some have judged MB 's depiction of Kralin (whom critic Patrick Wright sees as created to embody and to symbolise everything [she] opposes to her precious and threatened world, everything that threatens...

Another subject that Butts discusses in her memoir is her relationship with her mother. Jane Garrity sees the book as a devastating portrait of an evil mother who privileges (albeit through domination) her only son...

In the novel, set in the Isle of Purbeck (a peninsula off Dorset) and on the Cornish coast, a group of friends, including the protagonist, Scylla Taverner, find an old jade cup which...

MB depicts her antagonist, Kralin, as a man whose interests were all cerebral, in the abstractions we have made for our convenience out of life. This is the same mentality which, in her early...

This essay explores the disintegration of religion in the Western world, not a change in practice, but in sensibility. A moral temperature, not a protest, but an indifference. Critic Jane Garrity has noted the...