"A Writer's Recollections," a book review by Rebecca West, from the December 1918 issue of "The Bookman" magazine, discusses a book of that title, authored by Mrs. Humphry Ward, a woman novelist of the 19th century Victorian era, who offers her autobiographical memoir of a literary life in contact with prominent literary personages of the Victorian era.

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Today's mass-market romances have their precursors in late Victorian popular novels written by and for women. In Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance Martin Hipsky scrutinizes some of the best-selling British fiction from the period 1885 to 1925, the era when romances, especially those by British women, were sold and read more widely than ever before or since. Hipsky puts popular romances by Mrs. Humphry Ward, Marie Corelli, the Baroness Orczy, Florence Barclay, Elinor Glyn, Victoria Cross, Ethel Dell, and E. M. Hull into direct relationship with the fiction of Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, and D. H. Lawrence, among other modernist greats.