 First US edition | |
| Author | Margaret Kennedy |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Drama |
| Publisher | Heinemann 1923 (UK) Doubleday, Page 1925 (US) |
| Media type | |
The Ladies of Lyndon is a 1923 novel by the British writer Margaret Kennedy. [1] [2] Her debut novel, it was rell-received and she followed it the next year with her breakthrough novel The Constant Nymph . [3]
The novel follows the lives of a number of women connected with the country estate of Lyndon in the years leading up to and during the First World War. Encouraged by her mother Agatha marries the owner Sir John Clewer after a brief affair with her cousin, the doctor, Gerald Blair. When he returns after sometime away it reawakens her passions. Meanwhile Sir John's younger brother James marries one of the maids.
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An Imaginative Man is an 1895 novel by the British writer Robert Hichens. A tale about a young honeymooning man in Cairo who eventually goes mad after a series of sexual adventures and kills himself at the Great Sphinx, it was a commercial hit and Hichens wrote a number of further books in the orientalist style.
The Way of Ambition is a 1913 novel by the British writer Robert Hichens. An young woman marries a musical genius and ambitiously manages his career.
Nicola is a 1959 novel by the British writer Audrey Erskine Lindop. An attractive young woman returns to her home village after a term and prison, and discovers how much she is resented by some of the inhabitants.
Magic Lantern is a 1944 historical novel by Lady Eleanor Smith, her final novel before her death the next year. In it a Devon squire marries an attractive gypsy girl with whom he has a son, he in turn becomes besotted with a gypsy woman on the moors.
Stay with Me Till Morning is a 1970 novel by the British writer John Braine.
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Album Leaf is a 1933 novel by the British writer Marjorie Bowen, written under the pen name of Joseph Shearing. It was published in the United States in 1934 under the alternative title The Spider in the Cup, where it became a bestseller. Like a number of her works it has a gothic tone.
The House in Dormer Forest is a 1920 romance novel by the British writer Mary Webb. It was part of a wave of regional novels set across Britain, in Webb's case in her native Shropshire. She wrote it while living at her home near Bayston Hill. It was one of several works that inspired the later parody novel Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.
Seven for a Secret is a 1922 romance novel by the British writer Mary Webb. She wrote to Thomas Hardy asking if she might dedicate the novel to him, to which he agreed. As with her other novels it takes place in her native Shropshire. The title is taken from the traditional nursery rhyme One for Sorrow.
Gone to Earth is a 1917 romance novel by the British writer Mary Webb. It was her second novel following her debut The Golden Arrow the previous year. It received positive reviews and Rebecca West described it as her book of the year. It is set in Shropshire around Long Mynd and Wenlock Edge. In 1935 it was one of the first batch of Penguin Books published.
Paying Guests is a 1929 comedy novel by the British writer E.F. Benson, best known as the author of the Mapp and Lucia series. The story takes place at Wentworth, a boarding house in the fictional resort town of Bolton Spa. It focuses on the eccentric collection of summer residents, mostly there to try and recover their health, overseen by the domineering former Indian Army Colonel Chase. It has been described as "The coming together of character and situation in Paying Guests creates a comic masterpiece, worthy to stand alongside the Mapp and Lucia books".
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The Midas Touch is a 1938 novel by the British writer Margaret Kennedy. It was her eight novel, she then took a decade-long break before producing her next work The Feast in 1950. It was a Daily Mail Book of the Month.
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Red Sky at Morning is a 1927 novel by the British writer Margaret Kennedy, her third. Her previous novel The Constant Nymph had been a major critical and commercial success, and it was felt that her new novel failed to recapture this. Sylvia Lynd reviewed it saying "Few novels have so exquisite a forerunner as The Constant Nymph with which to compete. Compared with that, Red Sky at Morning, it must be admitted, is far less moving, less inevitable in the progress of its events, and less well stocked with fascinating characters. Compared with any ordinary novel, however, it is very good indeed - finely wrought, just, sensible, perceptive and witty".
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The Feast is a 1949 novel by the British writer Margaret Kennedy. It is a modern reworking of the seven deadly sins. Her ninth novel, it was her first in more than a decade. It was a Literary Guild choice in America.
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