Neglected or Forgotten: Four Women Novelists

Abstract

WHY ARE THEY neglected or forgotten, those minor (sometimes nearly major) novelists of the first two decades of this century? They have far more than period interest; some of the novels are, in fact, historical, with a theme shaped by historical events. The novelists were all sound craftswomen, scrupulous and professional, having three excellent, even essential talents: that of telling a tale, that of creating character and presenting it in action and dialogue, and that of indicating background. They none of them wrote to order or in a set pattern to be repeated in the next novel.

Citation

Lochhead, M. (1976), "Neglected or Forgotten: Four Women Novelists", Library Review, Vol. 25 No. 7, pp. 251-253. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012634