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In September of 1925, the English novelist E. M. Delafield, who in private life was known as Mrs. Elizabeth Dashwood, was interviewed by the Western Morning News, Devon's leading newspaper. The occasion was her appointment, at the age of thirty-five, as the first woman magistrate on the local Cullompton Bench. When the questions turned from jurisprudence (Should women justices be required to attend hangings?) to women and fiction, she remarked, "As regards the difference between the male and the female point of view in novel writing, I don't think nowadays there is a great deal in it." The only distinction remaining, she added, was that too many women writers lacked a ...