. When winter comes to Main Street . date. [333] Chapter XXI THE CONFESSIONS OF A WELL-MEANINGYOUNG MAN, STEPHEN McKENNA IN a sense, all of Stephen McKennas writinghas been a confession. More than any othernovelist now actively at work, this young manbases fiction on biographical and autobiographicalmaterial; and when he sits down deliberately towrite reminiscences, such as While I Remember^the result is merely that, in addition to confessinghimself, he confesses others. He has probably had more opportunity ofknowing the social and political life of Londonfrom the inside than most novelists of
. When winter comes to Main Street . date. [333] Chapter XXI THE CONFESSIONS OF A WELL-MEANINGYOUNG MAN, STEPHEN McKENNA IN a sense, all of Stephen McKennas writinghas been a confession. More than any othernovelist now actively at work, this young manbases fiction on biographical and autobiographicalmaterial; and when he sits down deliberately towrite reminiscences, such as While I Remember^the result is merely that, in addition to confessinghimself, he confesses others. He has probably had more opportunity ofknowing the social and political life of Londonfrom the inside than most novelists of his While I Remember he gives his recollections,while his memory is still fresh enough to be vivid,of a generation that closed, for literary if not forpolitical purposes, with the Peace is a power of wit and mordant humour anda sufficiency of descriptive power and insight intohuman character in all his work. While I Remember is actually a gallery of pic-tures taken from the life and executed with the [334]. STEPHEN MOKENNA [335] STEPHEN McKENNA technique of youth by a man still young—picturesof public school and university life, of social Lon-don from the death of King Edward to the Armis-tice, of domestic and foreign politics of the period,of the public services of Great Britain at homeand abroad. Though all these are within thecircle of Mr. McKennas narrative, literary Lon-don—the London that is more talked about thanseen—is the core of his story. n Mr. McKennas latest novel, The Confessionsof a Well-Meaning Woman, is a series of mono-logues addressed by one Lady Ann Spenworth toa friend of proved discretion. I quote from theLondon Times of April 6, 1922: In the courseof them Lady Ann Spenworth reveals to us thedifficulties besetting a lady of rank. She is com-pelled to live in a house in Mount street—for howcould she ask The Princess to visit her in Bays-water*?—and her income of a few thousands,hardly supplemented by her husbands director
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