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.
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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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Ada Leverson
The Green Carnation, a novel caricaturing Oscar Wilde
, appeared anonymously and was thought by Wilde to be by AL
: its author was actually Robert Hichens
.