books share similarities with contemporary writers such as Barbara Pym, Marghanita Laski and H. E. Bates. Her descriptions of farming practices and economics, and village vernacular, are noted as particularly detailed and accurate for this genre (Cavalliero, 1977). Joanna Godden and Susan Spray were reissued in the 1980s by feminist publishing house Virago. Since then her books are out of print, but are readily available on the used book market. Literary society The Sheila Kaye-Smith literary society is based in St Leonards-on-Sea, meets regularly, and has published a chronology of her life and works, as well producing an annual journal, The Gleam. There are extensive archives relating to Sheila Kaye-Smith in West Sussex County Library in Chichester. Works References Further reading A Chronology of the Life and Works of Sheila Kaye-Smith Third edition (2005) Michael Bristow-Smith. (published by the Sheila Kaye-Smith Society) The Rural Tradition in the English Novel 1900–39 (1977) by Glen Cavaliero. (Macmillan) A Gleam of Platnix – The Southern Novels of Sheila Kaye-Smith by Shaun Cooper. (Book & Magazine Collector, August 2007) Sheila Kaye-Smith and the Loam and Lovechild School of Literature by Helen Pearce, in "The Gleam", Summer 2004. (published by the Sheila Kaye-Smith Society) An American View of Sheila's 'Earthiness''', by Helen Pearce, in "The Gleam", Summer 2005. (published by the Sheila Kaye-Smith Society)Sheila's Response to 'Cold Comfort Farm by Helen Pearce, in "The Gleam", Summer 2008. (published by the Sheila Kaye-Smith Society)Sheila Kaye-Smith Letters, 1909–1937 by Sheila Kaye-Smith & Sewell Stokes.Sheila Kaye-Smith and the Weald Country (1925) by R. Thurston HopkinsWomen's Writing in English: Britain 1900–1945 (1980) by Anthea Trodd. (Longmans)Sheila Kaye-Smith'' (1980) by Dorothea Walker "The Shining Cord of Sheila Kaye-Smith" (2017) by Shaun Cooper. (Country Books) External links Sheila Kaye-Smith Society official website Sheila Kaye-Smith Collection at the Harry Ransom Center 1887 births 1956 deaths 20th-century English novelists 20th-century English poets 20th-century English women writers Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism English Catholic poets English Roman Catholics English women novelists English women poets People from Hastings People from Northiam