Abstract

The Nation Years

This article presents the author's experiences of her career. She preferred writing her reviews to reading the books that came to her. The first novel she wrote about at full length was a late book of H.G. Wells: she was in such a hurry to get started on the writing that she rushed to the typewriter when she was only halfway through the book and had to do her review again from the beginning. Now that she was to sign what she wrote, the question arose of what name she should use her maiden name or her name as Lionel Triling's wife. It is hard for her to recapture the early heady experience of becoming a public person, someone whose name was recognized on introduction, at least among literary people. Publishers took her to lunch to ask her to write books for them.