All the Years of Her Life | Critical Overview

During the 1930s, Callaghan’s short stories were highly regarded by critics and reviewers. His work was compared to that of Russian writers Leo Tol masters of the short-story form.

Wyndham Lewis favorably reviews the collection Now That April’s Here and Other Stories, in which ‘‘All the Years of Her Life’’ appeared. The following comment from Lewis’s review, which appears in Brandon Conron’s Morley Callaghan, captures the essence of ‘‘All the Years of Her Life’’: ‘‘These are tales very full of human sympathy—a blending of all the events...

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