The novels of Rosamond Lehmann have received some attention in the last twenty years or so, but she has not received the acclaim accorded those women authors--Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf--with whom she was most associated in the 1930s. Aside from two significant studies, Diana E. LeStourgeon's Rosamond Lehmann (1965) and James Gindin's "Rosamond Lehmann: A Revaluation" (1974), little has been written about this author, whose output has been relatively small and whose industry reached its peak in the 1930s. Yet Lehmann's work deserves consideration, both for its depiction of feminine sensibility and for the lyricism of its prose.Her subject matter is women in love, whether the women are eighteen or middle-aged. Her prose style, in its sensitive response to that encounter and to the natural world in which such encounters often take place, is as flexible and responsive as that of Elizabeth Bowen or, indeed, Virginia Woolf.

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