Sheila Kaye-Smith

Sheila Kaye-Smith (4 February 1887 – 14 January 1956) was an English writer, known for her many novels set in the borderlands of Sussex and Kent in the English regional tradition. Her 1923 book The End of the House of Alard became a best-seller, and gave her prominence; it was followed by other successes and her books enjoyed worldwide sales.

Kaye-Smith's novels straddle more than one genre of fiction. Her earliest novels partly fit into the 'earthy' rural category, together with that of Mary E Mann, Mary Webb, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Hardy, a genre which inspired Stella Gibbons's parody "Cold Comfort Farm". Kaye-Smith's descriptions of the Sussex countryside, coast and marsh are still regarded as some of the finest. Several of her heroines become single parents and most face various gender-related trials, reflecting her early feminism as well as influences such as George Moore and Thomas Hardy. Kaye-Smith also produced many short stories, and journalism published in national journals, magazines and newspapers.

In this ebook:

Joanna Godden

All the Books of My Life

The View from the Parsonage

Mrs. Gailey

The Happy Tree published in England in 1950 as The Treasures of the Snow

The Secret Son published in England in 1941 as The Hidden Son

Ember Lane. A Winter's Tale.

Faithful Stranger And Other Stories

Rose Deeprose

Selina published in England in 1935 as Selina is Older

Gallybird

Superstition Corner

Gipsy Waggon. The Story of a Ploughman's Progress. apparently published in England in 1933 as The Ploughman's Progress

Susan Spray

Shepherds in Sackcloth

 A Wedding Morn, a Story

Iron and Smoke

The Tramping Methodist

Spell Land. The Story of a Sussex Farm.

Green Apple Harvest

The End of the House of Alard

Joanna Godden Married and Other Stories

Saints In Sussex. Poems and Plays by Sheila Kaye-Smith.

Willow's Forge and other poems