SOURCE: "E. M. Delafield as a Novelist," in The Bookman, London, Vol. LXXXII, No. 491, August, 1932, pp. 240-41.

In the following essay, Hull surveys Delafield's novels from Zella Sees Herself through Thank Heaven Fasting.

The publication of Miss E. M. Delafield's latest novel, Thank Heaven Fasting, affords a welcome pretext briefly to review a range of achievements placing this author among the most accomplished fiction-writers of our time. Although the present survey is necessarily confined to aspects of Miss Delafield's art as revealed through her novels, readers will recall for themselves the exceptional talent illuminating numerous short stories from her pen, no less than dramatic capabilities ensuring unqualified success for that delightful comedy, To See Ourselves, produced at the Ambassadors Theatre in December, 1929.

When Zella Sees Herself appeared in 1917, Miss Delafield was immediately acclaimed for those powers of witty and devastating portraiture with which to-day she is extensively associated...