 In 1950 Gibbons published her Collected Poems , and in the same year was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . Throughout the 1950s she continued , at roughly two @-@ year intervals , to produce politely received novels , none of which created any particular stir . Among these was Fort of the Bear ( 1953 ) , in which she departed from her familiar London milieu by setting the story largely in the wilder regions of Canada . This was the last of her books handled by Longmans ; thereafter her work was published by Hodder and Stoughton . A journey to Austria and Venice in 1953 provided material for her novel The Shadow of a Sorcerer ( 1955 ) . From 1954 , having accepted an invitation from Malcolm Muggeridge , the editor of Punch , Gibbons provided frequent contributions to the magazine for the following 15 years . Among these was a science fiction story , " Jane in Space " , written in the style of Jane Austen . Gibbons , who wrote the introduction to the 1957 Heritage edition of Sense and Sensibility , was a long @-@ time admirer of Austen , and had described her in a Lady article as " one of the most exquisite " of woman artists . 
