Although she was a popular and prolific writer during the first half of the twentieth century, Lady Margaret Sackville has been all but forgotten by contemporary literary critics. There are no biographies of Sackville, no modern editions of her poems or prose fairy tales, and no selections by her in the major anthologies of British literature and women's literature. The sole critical study devoted to Sackville is a slim volume of laudatory essays collected by her friend Georgina Somerville in 1953, Harp Aeolian: Commentaries on the Works of Lady Margaret Sackville. Undoubtedly, a major reason for this critical neglect is that Sackville seems out of step with her age; indeed, John de Lingen in "The Harp Aeolian of a Thousand Strings," in Harp Aeolian, claims that she was "born either a century too late, or a couple of generations too early." The latter-day Romanticism of much of her poetry...