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"If a man had a child and he was also a writer we should have heard a lot about it," [Bagnold] once commented. "I wanted The Squire to be exactly as objective as if a man had had a baby."

These days, of course, the situation she describes is far more commonly acknowledged as both credible and possible, but the literary sentiment she was getting at remains of note.