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's strong, wilful, and playful personality, in addition to her beauty, attracted many suitors. Her admirers included publisher William Heinemann
and Sir Alfred Mond
(owner of the English Review). She described Harold Child
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL
's regular Times Literary Supplement reviewer, H. Child
, observed that only one of the stories, According to Meredith, had a thesis (that of a legal time-limit for marriages), and that this was...
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer, again Harold Hannyngton Child
, admired the character-drawing and wrote that MBL
, unlike most female novelists, was equally good at men and at women, and that the double plot...
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer, again Harold Hannyngton Child
, praised the careful avoidance of sensationalism, and the opening and close of the story; he felt that the middle part, when other characters fill in...
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Times Literary Supplement continued to employ the same reviewers for MBL
. De la Mare
expressed a certain disappointment with Jane Oglander on 16 March 1911; Harold Child
welcomed the turn back from murder...
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
Child
wrote that this was a murder story but no mere murder story because MBL
had chosen not to set the reader a puzzle but to probe the detail of characters whose guilt was already...
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
She anticipated that this book would be less popular than its predecessor.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
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In England, however, Harold Hannyngton Child
, who had first reviewed her for the Times Literary Supplement almost forty years before this...
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Ethel Lilian Voynich
Harold Hannyngton Child
, reviewing for the Times Literary Supplement, reported that this was quite unlike most novels of nihilism, which represent the obvious laced with the sensational. ELV
, he wrote, succeeded in...
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Henry Handel Richardson
Harold Hannyngton Child
in the Times Literary Supplement supposed that the author was a man. He proffered the paradox that the novel was never for a moment exciting although it was continuously interesting. He...
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Henry Handel Richardson
Harold Hannyngton Child
, an established champion of HHR
, had by this time learned that she was a woman. He was still as admiring as ever of her daring comicality of realism. He praised...
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Beatrice Harraden
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer, Harold Child
, praised this novel for demonstrating how BH
had made great strides in the technique of her art.
Child, Harold H. “Katharine Frensham”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 94, 30 Oct. 1903, p. 313.
313
He was particularly impressed by her characters, who emerged...
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Rudyard Kipling
Harold Hannyngton Child
, in the Times Literary Supplement, thought the stories well reflected Kipling's belief that a children's writer ought to take care not to be talking down to his superiors.
Stewart, James McGregor. Rudyard Kipling: A Bibliographical Catalogue. Editor Yeats, A. W., Dalhousie University Press and University of Toronto Press, 1959.
292
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Emily Lawless
Lawless described The Book of Gilly as an analysis of nostalgia for childhood: the little boy's adventure is only a sort of cloak or screen to a series of small problems—as how impressions strike us...
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
Harold Hannyngton Child
in the Times Literary Supplement gave this work high praise: it deserves careful reading, he said, as a strong and dignified piece of work, with, as the phrase goes, a great deal...
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
Again Harold Hannyngton Child
approved this work, calling it the story of a great passion told with delicacy and power, a combination which is none too common.
Child, Harold H. “Barbara Rebell”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 197, 20 Oct. 1905, p. 350.