Tag: 20th century novel

• Novel on Yellow Paper

  The cover shows a detail from CatherineCarrington, by Dora Carrington. Novelist and poet Stevie Smith seems to have become a forgotten author, but back in the middle of the last century her spare, wry poems were immensely popular, offering a skewed view of suburban life that questioned our perceptions and made us think about loneliness,…

  chrisharding53

  September 16, 2013

  20th century novel, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Novel on Yellow Paper, Stevie Smith

• A Heroine who is Hard to Like

  Henrietta was third daughter and fifth child of Mr and Mrs Symons, so that enthusiasm for babies had declined in both parents by the time she arrived. Still, in her first few months she was bound to be important and take up a great deal of time. When she was two another boy was born,…

  chrisharding53

  October 18, 2012

  20th century novel, FM Mayor, The Third Miss Symons

• Sandwiches and Sphagnum Moss

  I downloaded this from Girlebooks, who got it from Project Gutenberg. I’m still catching up on Early 20th Century Authors (I always was a bit of a slow-coach) so I’ve just read The War-Workers, by EM Delafield. Published in 1918, this was her second novel, written before she’d really honed her talents, and is not…

  chrisharding53

  July 17, 2012

  20th century novel, E Delafield, war work, WWI