One of the most popular successes of the season beyond doubt has been the novel published by Mr. Heinemann entitled Tangled Trinities. It bears on its title-page the name of “Daniel Woodroffe,” but as with so many cases of the kind the author is a woman, a Mrs. J. C. Woods, the wife of a solicitor of Swansea. Mrs. Woods was born in India and spent her childhood in Malta and Gibraltar. In her early years she studied art, but was encouraged into literature by the happy accident that the editor of the Globe accepted one of her articles entitled “A Dancing Man” for its “turn-over” column. Tangled Trinities with its piteous clergyman and its bright-eyed heroine, Asta, excites profound interest and has been made the text for a good many sermons of late, particularly in South Wales. Mrs. Woods thoroughly enjoys her success from the quiet of her home, a pleasant old-fashioned house outside Swansea, although she recently told a friend that with all her delight in it she loves a visit to London, “which is the place I am fondest of in the world.”
X. (1901, July 3). The literary personalities of the hour. The Tatler, p. 45
