About the author

Phyllis Bottome (1884–1963) was a British novelist. Her fiction focuses largely on women's psychology and social issues, and she was skilled at revealing, through her characters' inner lives, how individuals struggle and make choices within real circumstances. Two of her works are held in this collection: The Dark Tower and The Second Fiddle; she also wrote The Private Worlds of Julia Reed. Publicly available material on her life is limited, so further biographical detail cannot be given here. Overall, her writing is notable for psychological portraiture and for its attention to the tension between social norms and personal will, giving her work a measure of social observation and a distinctive voice in twentieth-century British fiction.

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