Publisher's Synopsis
"The eleven essays and 117 literary reviews gathered in this book were written largely between 1932 and 1937, the most productive period of Mary Butts's foreshortened literary career: she died at 47. After spending most of the 'twenties on the Continent, she repatriated to London before settling with a new husband permanently in Sennen, a Cornish village close to Land's End. Famously impractical about money, she must have welcomed the editor Hugh Ross Williamson's invitation to review for The Bookman as a means to supplement her small allowance and book royalties. Considering her charming and personal reviews, such work would seem also to have given her pleasure; it is a far sight from hackwork. Within a short time she was engaged to write reviews and essays for other prominent journals and newspapers - The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Manchester Guardian, The London Mercury, Time and Tide, Week-End Review, John
