Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 4 | English Prize Winner's Books Prove Market Failures; Public Unresponsive

English Prize Winners Winner s Books Prove Market Failures Public Unresponsive KIRKBY LONSDALE LONSDALE England AP Winner of the Femina Vio prize for her novel noyel of country life The Splendid FairIng Fairing Fair Fair- Ing and revered by a group of England's literary lights Constance nevertheless lives In obscurity oh- oh In this little unrecognized unrecognized un- un recognized by the reading to whom her bel books are virtually unknown un- un known Living In the tho country countr far from London and without the stimulus of encouragement and advice Miss 1 faced the young authors author's usual struggle of searching for a I market only to be rewarded for the most pa t with returned return d manuscripts manuscripts manu manu- scripts and polite rejection slips Some ot of her early stories appeared In local newspapers and she wrote plays plays' for tile tho village dramatic so- so clet In 1913 when she he was just over 30 her first novel Crump Folk Going Home was accepted for Cor publication and was enthusiastically cally received by the After her second book The Lonely Plough appeared she found herself herself her her- self lionized b literary circles In London but the public reception was vas frigid The Road From Spain met with similar critical success and public failure and even The Splendid Fairing which Won on the Femina prize in 1920 1120 had disappointing sales It is s fifteen years now since my first novel was published says ays Constance Holme and in that time I have written seven books but I Ineer never ne earned moro more than pocket I money from them It Is Impossible 1 that I should not wonder occasionally occasionally occasion occasion- ally whether J I am wasting my time whatever praise the critics and literary friends may give and It is only because I love writing so much and II I hope after all m my books nie Ite F erving some good pur- pur lose POlie that I lam m able to go on I i