William Arthur Deacon

One typical critical response to Hetty Dorval can be found in the New York Times Book Review. There Seymour Krim wrote: It has in it just enough solid merit to make its ultimate failure...

Negative reviews seemed to repeat Macmillan 's original worry that the collection was half-cooked. Aunt Topaz was characterized by the Canadian Forum as a terrible bore, whom the reviewer found almost as tiresome to...

The Canadian reviews of The Equations of Love were mixed. EW finally won over the reviewer at the Globe and Mail (it was not, this time, William Arthur Deacon ). The Vancouver Sun claimed that...

The reviews appeared in the month of publication. On 21 August William Arthur Deacon at the Globe and Mail, finally won over, wrote that in contrast to EW 's other work, Swamp Angel was...

Reviews for Love and Salt Water revealed that EW was increasingly respected primarily as a distinguished stylist. An exceptionally negative review appeared in the Edmonton Journal, which described the novel as a ridiculous book...

The early 1950s were a pleasurable time for EW , who enjoyed creative success in addition to the improved health of her husband. Furthermore, she now became more active in the Canadian literary scene. Since...

EW was characteristically apprehensive about publicity. She strictly controlled the content of the publicity articles which appeared before the novel's publication. They included simply her account of the novel occurring to her in a dream...