The play garnered high praise from contemporary theatre critics, and was immensely popular with audiences, some of whom reputedly went to see it thirty or forty times.
Gielgud, Sir John. Early Stages. Rev. ed., Falcon, 1948.
178
It brought its author fame and recognition...
Literary responses
Dodie Smith
The play was very well received on both sides of the Atlantic.
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
101
Critic Ernest Short
summed up its charm by saying that Miss Smith's flair lies in making a play out of very little...
Publishing
Dodie Smith
Autumn Crocus launched what theatre critic Ernest Short
called [a] Dodie Smith boom; in only six years, DS
had collected earnings of £60,000 from her plays.
Short, Ernest. Theatrical Cavalcade. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942.
202
In 1934, Autumn Crocus was made into...
Textual Production
Dodie Smith
In 1942 theatre critic Ernest Short
deemed DS
to be England's most successful woman dramatist.
Short, Ernest. Theatrical Cavalcade. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942.
201
From this time on, however, her success as a playwright took a sharp downward turn; she increasingly had difficulty...
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Texts
Short, Ernest. Theatrical Cavalcade. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1942.
