Sheila Kaye-Smith

04 February 1887 - 14 January 1956

Standard Name: Kaye-Smith, Sheila

Birth Name: Sheila Kaye-Smith

Married Name: Sheila Fry

Pseudonym: E. C. Ticehurst

Writing mostly in the first half of the twentieth century, SKS published thirty-one novels, in addition to about twenty works in other genres: biography, criticism, saints' lives, country lore, and books of memoirs (one of them disguised as a cookery book). Almost all her novels are set in the Weald of Sussex, with which her name became closely identified. She called Jane Austen her Bible.

Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne, 1980.

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Occupation	Catharine Amy Dawson Scott	She served as the club's organizer and hostess. She intended it as a space where fledgling writers could gather and make contact with established authors. Her friend J. D. Beresford , novelist, was the club's...
Reception	Elinor Mordaunt	Overall Johnson , writing in 1920, admired in EM 's work a somewhat severe aloofness and grim humour. She reminded him of Sheila Kaye-Smith , though he did not find in her the masculinity he...
Residence	Rumer Godden	They then moved out of London, after living there for six years, to an estate called Little Doucegrove in Northiam, East Sussex, where for the first time RG employed a gardener (who went...
Textual Features	Catharine Amy Dawson Scott	This powerful novel belongs to the rural-inheritance genre, as practised about this time by Mary Webb and Sheila Kaye-Smith , and as later mocked by Stella Gibbons . Like the work of Webb and Kaye-Smith...
Textual Production	G. B. Stern	In 1954 GBS and Sheila Kaye-Smith collaborated once again, on He Wrote Treasure Island, The Story of Robert Louis Stevenson. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Stern also wrote introductions to texts of works both by Austen and by Stevenson.
Textual Production	G. B. Stern	This was before she and Sheila Kaye-Smith published their joint biography of Stevenson, 1954. GBS was later asked by J. C. Furnas to write a serious historical monograph on the tramp character, who had now...
Textual Production	Monica Furlong	This saint had already attracted a number of English women writers: Evelyn Underhill , Sheila Kaye-Smith , and Vita Sackville-West (the only one in Furlong's bibliography). A new edition of MF 's book appeared in 2001.
Textual Production	Evelyn Underhill	EU wrote several biographical articles on religious figures, including St Paul , Julian of Norwich , Angela de Foligno , Kabir , St Thérèse of Lisieux , and Devendranath Tagore (father of poet Rabindranath Tagore
Textual Production	G. B. Stern	Sheila Kaye-Smith and GBS jointly published Talking of Jane Austen, an attempt at an informal record of their endless conversations about a novelist they both loved. Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958. 87
Textual Production	Rumer Godden	Olga Sarah Manders had trained under great chefs; she began cooking for Godden because she had cooked for Sheila Kaye-Smith .
Textual Production	Storm Jameson	Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations. Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row, 1970. 524 The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...
Textual Production	G. B. Stern	This book may quite likely be the successor to a projected biography of Sheila Kaye-Smith , which was lined up for publication in 1955, but seems to have fallen victim to the financial precariousness of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Ella Hepworth Dixon	In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith , Margaret Kennedy (particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim , and Violet Hunt . Authors who receive whole...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	G. B. Stern	She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning 's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley plain? qtd. in Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery, 1958. prelims She approaches...
Travel	G. B. Stern	Towards the end of the first world war GBS arrived (together with Sheila Kaye-Smith ) in the artists' and writers' colony at St Merryn in Cornwall. In the early nineteen-thirties she spent a good...

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Kaye-Smith, Sheila. Willow’s Forge and Other Poems. E. Macdonald, 1914.