ABSTRACT
And what indeed does Reverend Roper mean by ‘Home’ in 1934? Is he referring to the English beau ideal of nation, to imagined domestic spaces and family life glowing with Christian good will, to a specifi c vernacular built form, or to an inculcated or atavistic desire for belonging and at home-ness?2 Taking as a case study Emily Hilda Young, who published 11 novels during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s and was highly acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic, we examine how the meaning of home and the narration of domestic space were articulated in the impressive upsurge of women novelists in Britain between the two world wars.
