Sheila Kaye-Smith

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Sheila Kaye-Smith (4 February 1887 – January 14 1956) was an English writer, known for her many novels set in Sussex. Her 1923 book The End of the House of Alard became a best-seller, and gave her prominence; it was followed by other successes. Her Joanna Godden was in 1947 filmed as The Loves of Joanna Godden.

She was born in St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, and lived most of her life in the county.

Her fiction was noted for its religious preoccupations. In 1924 she married Theodore Penrose Fry, an Anglican clergyman, and in 1925 wrote a book on Anglo-Catholicism. In 1929 she and her husband became Roman Catholic converts.

Her fiction, together with that of Mary Webb, was one of the principal targets of the parody Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.

She lived for many years at Northiam in Sussex, where she had converted an oast house.

Works

  • The Tramping Methodist (1908)
  • Spell Land: The Story of a Sussex Farm (1910)
  • Samuel Richardson (1911)
  • Isle of Thorns (1913)
  • Willow’s Forge and other poems (1914)
  • Three against the World (1914)
  • Sussex Gorse (1916)
  • John Galsworthy (1916) biography
  • The Challenge to Sirius (1917)
  • Little England (1918)
  • Tamarisk Town (1919)
  • Green Apple Harvest (1920)
  • Joanna Godden (1921)
  • Saints in Sussex (1923) poems
  • The End of the House of Alard (1923)
  • Starbrace (1923)
  • Anglo-Catholicism (1925)
  • The George and the Crown (1925)
  • The Mirror of the Months (1925)
  • Joanna Godden Married and other Stories (1926)
  • Iron and Smoke (1928)
  • A Wedding Morn (1928)
  • The Village Doctor (1929)
  • Shepherds in Sackcloth (1930)
  • Songs Late and Early (1931) poems
  • Susan Spray (1931)
  • The Children's Summer (1932)
  • The Ploughman's Progress (1933)
  • Superstition Corner (1934)
  • Gallybird (1934)
  • Selina is Older (1935)
  • Rose Deeprose (1936)
  • Three Ways Home (1937) autobiography
  • The Faithful Stranger (1938) short stories
  • The Valiant Woman (1939)
  • Ember Lane (1940)
  • Tambourine, Trumpet and Drum (1943)
  • Talking of Jane Austen (1943) with G. B. Stern
  • Kitchen fugue (1945)
  • The Lardners and the Laurelwoods (1948)
  • The Happy Tree (1949)
  • The Treasures of the Snow (1949)
  • More Talk of Jane Austen (1950)
  • Mrs. Gailey (1951)
  • The Hidden Son (1953)
  • The Weald of Kent and Sussex (1953) non-fiction
  • Quartet in Heaven (1953) religious biography
  • The View from the Parsonage (1954)
  • All the Books of My Life (1956) autobiography

Reference

  • Sheila Kaye-Smith and the Weald Country (1925) R. Thurston Hopkins
  • Sheila Kaye-Smith (1980) Dorothea Walker
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