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Leclaire (1954: 254): “Born at St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex. She has lived all her life in that county, in the town and the country north of Brede, and her novels take all their colouring, atmosphere and life from her surroundings. A. C. Ward, in Twentieth Century Literature, describes her as “the most consistent of Hardy’s followers”; adding, “Sheila Kaye-Smith’s characters are more definitely localized (even parochialized) than Hardy’s”. ...”Interest is closely concentrated upon the environment and upon what the environment makes of the inhabitants”. Her principal locale is the Kent-Sussex border, on either side of the Rother.
She herself says: “I am not a regional novelist for any reason but necessity. I have never deliberately chosen or marked out any part of Britain as my own preserve, and I write about Kent and Sussex (West Kent and East Sussex) because I am as much their child as any character in my novels. I felt at home in that country even after I had left it and my imagination fled there for a number of books...” (Three Ways Home, 1937. Cassel & Co.)”
WORKS
1908. The Tramping Methodist. 1908. London: George Bell & Sons.
1908. Starbrace. London: George Bell & Sons.
“Opens at Westfield, six miles east of Battle, and five north of Hastings. The watery levels about Rye
are the general scenes.” (Leclaire 1954: 254)
1910. Spell-Land. London: George Bell & Sons. SC.
“Sussex, though too bookish, in the author’s opinion. The place is all-important. Between Westfield
and Easeham. Hastings and Benenden are quoted incidentally.” (Leclaire 1954: 255)
1912. The Isle of Thorns. London: A. Constable & Co., London.
“The Ashdown district of Sussex. But townsfolk living in the country.” (Leclaire 1954: 255)
1914. Three Against the World. London: Chapman and Hall.
“The same as the preceeding.” (Leclaire 1954: 255)
1916. Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight. London: Nisbet & Co.
“In the Iden, Peasmarsh and Buckley district.” (Leclaire 1954: 255)
1918. Little England. London: Nisbet & Co. SC.
1919. Tamarisk Town. London. Cassell & Co.
“Hastings. An old fishing quarter turning into a seaside resort." (Leclaire 1954: 255)
1920. Green Apple Harvest. London: Cassell & Co. SC.
“Religion in Sussex. Goudhurst, Benenden, Bodiam, the Rother Valley.” (Leclaire 1954: 255)
1921. Joanna Godden. London: Cassell and Co. SC.
“Sussex farming. The story of the glory and fall of a headstrong woman-farmer. A sea farm on
Walland Marsh, near Rye.” (Leclaire 1954: 255)
1922. The End of the House of Alard. London: Cassell & Co.
“”Starvecrow” lies between Peamarsh and Buckley Furnace, about Iden.” (Leclaire 1954: 255)
1925. The George and the Crown. London: Cassell & Co. London.
“A large part in Sark. “This experiment showed me clearly that I could write of [the Channel
Islands] only from the ouside, from the visitor’s point of view”, the author writes... “Even my
mother’s blood was not able to let me see their people throw their own eyes.” (Leclaire 1954: 255)
1926. Joanna Godden Married, and Other Stories. London: Cassell & Co.
“Joanna Godden lives down her shame in Winchester, then on a farm. War-time agriculture with
wheat-growing.” (Leclaire 1954: 255)
1928. Iron & Smoke. London: Cassell & Co.
“Conflict between the tradition of agriculture and the desire to make money by industry. Sussex: an
impoverished squire marries a wealthy ironmaster’s daughter for her dowry.” (Leclaire 1954: 256).
1929. The Village Doctor. London: Cassell & Co.
1930. Shepherd’s in Sackcloth. London: Cassell & Co.
1931. The History of Susan Spray, the Female Preacher. London: Cassell & Co.
“The Sussex-Surrey border, between East Grinstead and Crawley, then Horsham, Cuckfield, Lewes,
and the vicinity of Brighton.”
1932. The Children’s Summer. London: Cassell & Co.
“A revival of her childhood.” (Leclaire 1954: 256)
1933. The Ploughman’s Progress. London: Cassell & Co.
“Agricultural conditions during the national slump of the time. The battle of town and country.”
(Leclaire 1954: 256).
1934. Superstition Corner. London: Cassell & Co.
“Sixteenth century in Sussex. Religious, historical and social. The introduction of new methods of
smelting by Frenchmen, the Alards and Douces.” (Leclaire 1954: 256).
1934. Gallybird. London: Cassell & Co.
“A sequel to the preceeding.” (Leclaire 1954: 256)
1935. Selina is Older. London: Cassell & Co.
“Another revival of childhood.” (Leclaire 1954: 256)
1936. Rose Deeprose. London: Cassell & Co.
“The Kentish Weald, though the spirit is that of Sussex.” (Leclaire 1954: 256)
1938. Faithful Stranger, and other stories. London: Cassell & Co.
“Sussex and Kent.” (Leclaire 1954: 256)
1939. The Valiant Woman. London: Cassell & Co.
“Sussex: the vilage of Cowplain. Roman Catholic influence visible.” (Leclaire 1954: 256)
1940. Ember Lane. A Winter’s Tale. London: Cassell & Co.
“A story of second sight, in a picture of a Sussex village in Winter. (Leclaire 1954: 257)
1941. The Hidden Son. London: Cassell & Co.
1943. Tambourine, Trumpet & Drum. London: Cassell & Son.
“Marlingate, the fields and farms of the country behind it, in the story of three girls, through three
wars.” (Leclaire 1954: 257).
1945. Kitchen Fugue. London: Cassell & Co.
“About food and cooking in war-time, in Sussex.” (Leclaire 1954: 257)
1948. The Lardners and the Laurelwoods. London: Cassell & Co.
“Two families in the familiar surroundings.” (Leclaire 1954: 257)
1950. The Treasures of the Snow. London: Cassell & Co.
“On the Kent-Sussex border.” (Leclaire 1954: 257)
KINGKONG PROJECT
(Emily) Sheila KAYE-SMITH, Mrs FRY {UK} (F: 1887 Feb 4 - 1956 Jan 14 (wrongly 15))
The Tramping Methodist [f|1908]
Starbrace [f|1909]
Three Against The World [f|1909]
Spell Land [f|1910]
Samuel Richardson [1911]
Isle Of Thorns [f|1913]
Three Against The World [f|1914]
Willow's Forge.. [p|1914]
John Galsworthy [1916]
Sussex Gorse [f|1916]
The Challenge To Sirius [f|1917]
Little England [1918]
Tamarisk Town [1919]
Green Apple Harvest [f|1920]
15779 Joanna Godden [f|1921]
The End Of The House Of Alard [f|1923]
Saints in Sussex [p|1923]
Anglo-Catholicism [n|1925]
The George And The Crown [1925]
The Mirror Of The Months [1925]
Joanna Godden Married.. [s|1926]
Saints In Sussex [p|1926]
Iron And Smoke [f|1928]
A Wedding Morn [f|1928]
The Village Doctor [1929]
Sin [1929]
Mrs Adis; and, The Mockbeggar [d|pub:1929]
Shepherds In Sackcloth [f|1930]
Songs Late And Early [1931]
The History Of Susan Spray, The Female Preacher [1931]
The Children's Summer [1932]
The Ploughman's Progress (US: Gipsy Waggon) [f|1933]
Gallybird [f|1934]
Superstition Corner [f|1934]
Selina Is Older (US: Selina is Older) [f|1935]
Rose Deeprose [f|1936]
Three Ways Home [a|1937]
Dropping The Hyphen [1938]
Faithful Stranger.. [s|1938]
The Valiant Woman [1939]
Ember Lane [f|1940]
The Hidden Son (US: The Hidden Son) [f|1941]
Talking Of Jane Austen (w Mrs Geoffrey L HOLDSWORTH) [b|1943]
Speaking Of Jane Austen (w G B STERN) [b|1944]
Tambourine, Trumpet And Drum [1943]
Kitchen Fugue [1945]
The Lardners And The Laurelwoods [1948]
More About Jane Austen (UK: More Talk Of..) (w G B STERN[b|1949]
The Treasures Of The Snow (US: The Happy Tree) [f|1950]
Mrs Gailey [f|1951]
Quartet In Heaven [b|1953]
Weald Of Kent And Sussex [n|1953]
The View From The Parsonage [f|1954]
All The Books Of/In My Life [a|1956]
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HER LIFE AND WORKS SEE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Kaye-Smith
http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=kayesh
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/313720/Sheila-Kaye-Smith
http://www.escis.org.uk/Entry/View/Sheila_Kaye-Smith_Society/5520
Bristow-Smith, Michael. 2005. A Chronology of the Life and Works of Sheila Kaye-Smith. Saint Leonards-on-Sea: Published by the Sheila Kaye-Smith Society
Smith, Peter D. 2004. "Smith, (Emily) Sheila Kaye- (1887–1956)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: University Press [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51136, accessed 8 May 2015]
Thurston Hopkins, R. 1925. Sheila Kaye-Smith and the Weald Country. London: C. Palmer.
Walker, Dorothea. 1980. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Boston: Twayne Publishers.
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LITERARY DIALECTS
1800-1950
SOUTH
SUSSEX PROSE
Sheila Kaye-Smith
(1887-1956)
