My paper focuses on Delafield’s 1928 novel The Suburban Young Man, in which Peter Jannett, a moderately successful middlebrow writer from a composite London suburb, struggles to produce better writing; his wife and relatives argue strongly in favour of his taking a sensible job in the family business while a love affair leads to a marital c…[Read more]

My paper focuses on Delafield’s 1931 novel, Challenge to Clarissa and investigates one of the ways in which middlebrow writing accommodated the category of the lesbian in the wake of the publication and prosecution for obscenity of The Well of Loneliness. As Humble has argued, it was possible for readers of middlebrow fiction to “…[Read more]