War novel prefaced the (American) first edition of 1941, Powys comments "the beginning of the fifteenth century […] saw the beginning of one of the most momentous and startling epochs of "transition" that the world has known". This was written in May 1940, and "[t]here can be no doubt" that readers of the novel would have "registered the connection between the actions of the book and the events of their own world". "Fair Stood the Wind for France" is a 1944 novel by H. E. Bates, which is concerned with a pilot of a Wellington bomber, who badly injures his arm when
E. H. Thompson and Browning's "veined humanity." E. H. Thompson Mrs. E. H. Thompson was an American author and educator who wrote "From the Thames to the Trossachs", published by New York company Hunt and Eaton in 1890. She was an active writer in the 1870s through to the early 1900s at least. Much of her work was published by the "Zion's Herald" (later to be known as The Progressive Christian), a Methodist weekly magazine. Her contributions to the "Herald" had a moral and religious focus, recommending school activities and prayers for school children, and warning of the dangers of excessive drinking. "From