Later Works

Abstract

After the publication of The Echoing Grove, Rosamond Lehmann did not write another novel for twenty-three years. Undoubtedly her literary silence was due to the sudden death of her daughter, Sally, from polio in 1958. As she acknowledged in 1984,

I think it true to say that some dimension of creativity dropped off me, so to speak, when that metanoia occurred after Sally left the Earth. I realized, and still do, that I could never write the kind of novel I had always written.⁶⁶