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MARGERY FISHER

Honor Arundel has an open, simple way of outlining human relationships but she does outline; she leaves space for the reader's imagination to work. In Emma's island the heroine was thrown into delightful confusion by the attentions of Alastair, whom she met on a holiday dig. Alastair only half knew that his kiss was a casual one: Emma was sure it was a declaration. In the sequel [Emma in love] we follow the course of her disillusionment…. There is humour in this study of moods and tenses, a degree of tenderness and a great deal of shrewd knowledge of what the young do say, what they could say if they knew how and what they really want to say. (p. 1668)

Margery Fisher, "Listen to the Silences," in her Growing Point, Vol. 9, No. 7, January, 1971, pp. 166-70.

[Emma in Love is a] sequel to The High House and Emma's Island. Emma experiences the tortures and delights...

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1. Introduction
2. Robert Bell
3. Polly Goodwin
4. S. L. Blanford
5. Linda Crowe
6. Zena Sutherland
7. Mrs. J. M. Murphy
8. Margery Fisher
9. Mrs. J. Aldridge
10. Margery Fisher
11. Julia G. Russell
12. Judith Aldridge
13. John W. Conner
14. Nicholas Tucker
15. John W. Conner
16. Margery Fisher
17. Celia Boyd
18. Judith Aldridge
19. Vivienne Furlong
20. J. Russell
21. John Rowe Townsend
22. Eleanore Braun Luckey
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