Hugh de Selincourt, a Forgotten Anti-War Novelist

This article argues the case for a revival of interest in the novels of Hugh de Selincourt. Not only does his work raise issues of continuing significance, but a history of the literature of the First World War is seriously defective without a knowledge of his work since, unlike other authors, he writes out of a fundamentally anti-war position. He had established himself before 1914 as a pro-feminist novelist with, like Lawrence, a positive view of sexuality which, as he saw it, necessitated a rejection of the war when it came.