Martin Seymour-Smith

They met at the house of Blanche and Montague Crackanthorpe . Blanche Crackanthorpe published an article in 1895 which criticised the short story Theodora: A Fragment by LH 's sister Victoria Cross.

A number of evaluations of Hope's work appeared at her death. Thomas Hardy 's obituary for her, printed in the Athenæum, praised the tropical luxuriance and Sapphic fervour of The Garden of Káma...

The short notice in British Book News, by Martin Seymour-Smith , maintained that EF had not yet fulfilled her promise, but that this was her best book so far.

Of reviewers, Roy Fuller registered Riding's dazzling intellectual gifts, but went on to concentrate on her muse relationship with Graves. Martin Seymour-Smith was more deliberately offensive in his accusations of megalomania. A review for...

LR always maintained she was uninterested in her reputation and would take no steps to assist it—though she did care that the record should be accurate, and to that end she wrote a lengthy article...

OM 's biographers note that a number of reference sources make no mention of this novel. At round about the same date she was distressed to find herself omitted from Who's Who in Twentieth Century...