31 DECEMBER 1943, Page 12

SIR,—Don't you think that the love of fiction in females

springs mainly from three causes? SIR,—Don't you think that the love of fiction in females springs mainly from three causes?

t. Women are much more interested in individuals than men and fiction is mainly personaL 2. They are much more emotional than men and fiction appeals largely to the emotions.

3. They are more often than not much more dissatisfied with their work than men and novels are an escape.

How much the late Miss Delsfield understood that attitude in her own sex is shown again and again in her writing.—Believe me, yours faithfully, M. HAMMOND. 75 Sr. Mary's Mansions, Paddington Green, W.2.