I just purchased The Music at Long Verney. I had previously read Kingdoms of Elfin and Lolly Willowes
Her editor at The New Yorker quotes her in a letter to a friend:
A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong headed story, that would come blundering like a moth on my window, and stare in with small red eyes, and I the last writer in the world to manage such a subject. One should have more self control. One should be able to say, Go away. You have come to the wrong inkstand, there is nothing for you here. But I am so weak minded that I cannot even say, Come again next week.
The Lady could surely write.