The Return of the Soldier

…novelist with an outstanding—and Jamesian—novel, The Return of the Soldier (1918). Describing the return of a shell-shocked soldier from World War I, the novel subtly explores questions of gender and class, identity and memory. Her other novels include The Judge (1922), Harriet Hume (1929), The Thinking Reed (1936), The Fountain…

…first and greatly underrated novel, The Return of the Soldier (1918), to later novels such as Harriet Hume (1929), she explored how and why middle-class women so tenaciously upheld the division between private and public spheres and helped to sustain the traditional values of the masculine world. West became a…