She Painted Her Face
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Author | Dornford Yates |
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Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Ward Lock & Co[1] |
Publication date | 1937[1] |
Media type | |
Pages | 319[1] |
She Painted Her Face is a 1937 novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer). It was first serialised in Woman's Journal (December 1936 to April 1937, illustrated by Forster) and in Woman's Home Companion (December 1936 to May 1937, under the title Counterfeit Coin, illustrated by Frederick Chapman).
Plot
Richard Exon (narrator) defends the life and birthright of Lady Elizabeth Virgil. A castle in Carinthia, and its well, forms the backdrop.
Background
Mercer’s autobiographer AJ Smithers noted that it cannot be by accident that one of the characters bears the name of Mercer's much loved grandmother, Harriet, and that the heroine is called Elizabeth, the name of his second wife.[2]
Critical reception
Smithers considered this book to be a pot-boiler, although "it is necessary to admit that the yarn is an excellent one, tautly written and as exciting as ever ... Few writers possessed such a gift for turning old material into acceptable wear”.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "British Library Item details". primocat.bl.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- ^ Smithers 1982, pp. 168–169.
- ^ Smithers 1982, p. 168.
Bibliography
- Smithers, AJ (1982). Dornford Yates. London: Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 0-340-27547-2.
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