Her mother, born Mary Brookesby
(a niece of the well-known Catholic heroine Anna Vaux
), died when Winefrid was ten.
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Literary responses
Ali Smith
For Anna Vaux
of the Times Literary Supplement, the book's claim to represent a century of women's writing was bold to begin with, compounded by the way the work is tied to a single...
Literary responses
Michèle Roberts
A couple of years after publication, interviewer Olga Kenyon
thought this book very exciting, its violence unusual for a woman writer, and its unusual imagery full of significance for women in particular.
Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing, 1989.