IN FICTION

Extracts from Authors' Letters.

From Madame Sarah Grand.

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"The Heavenly Twins. . . broke
conspiracy of silence which was barring progress,
and made effective the great evolutionary movement
which recently culminated in the enfranchisement of
Your book will arrive at a crucial
moment in the history of the world, the moment of
the release of women from the bondage which has
hitherto held their spiritual force in thrall.
am looking forward to the publication of your book
with great interest. With all good wishes for

your success.

From H. G. Wells, Esq.

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"There is no objection whatever to your publishing your very pleasant appreciation of Lady Harman." From George Moore, Esq.

"It is pleasant to give you permission to write an article about Esther Waters, but no permission was necessary. I wish you every success with your book; you seem to have hit upon a very good subject, one that will attract readers, and I look forward to reading it."

From Miss Violet Hunt,

I shall be pleased to have the inclusion of my work The Maiden's Progress in your volume. Moderna seems very old-fashioned now that modernity means so much more than a visit to a music-hall with a young man. And it is not the first time she has been made an example! Madame Arvède Barine used her in Les Débats to show French people what une jeune fille Anglaise had lately become."

From Sir Hall Caine.

All that the author can do is to thank his critic for the spirit in which she approaches his work if it is a fair and friendly spirit, as I am sure in your case it would be and in showing impartially what the author's aim has been. .. If you have done this in the essay on my heroine I shall have abundant reason to thank you and to wish well to your forthcoming book."

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First published in 1918

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HE modern Revolt of Woman has been expressed in many forms. Some, to whom it is repugnant-the women

who hug their chains and the men who fear to lose their power-have altogether denied its existence. These put down certain strange phenomena to hysteria, general social discontent or failure on the part of the "odd women to gain woman's fitting place in the family.

Under these circumstances it is instructive as well as interesting to look over the literary records of the period covered roughly by what is called the "Woman's Movement," and to see how the men and women of genius, or even observation, have dealt with the world-old puzzle-the relation of the sexes one to the other.

That is the service which the writer of this admirable series of sketches-The Feminine in Fiction-has rendered to the country.