SHOP GIRL'S NOVEL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1587, 2 November 1912, Page 11

SHOP GIRL'S NOVEL.

HOW SHE WBOTE IT. ; Miss Maisie Bennett, who has just published her first book, most of which she wrote after spending ten hours a. day in a shop, is already at work on her second. The title of the book is "Golden Vanity,'' and it deals with London life chiefly. ' "'Golden Vanity' was accepted-a week after I had submitted it to the publishers," Miss Benuett told the "Daily Mirror."-. ■'■'..'■' : "I really started it when! was sixteen, and then I continued it wheml was about nineteen. The book took me two years to 'finish. I could.'only write a little at night when T had finished -business. Writing at night is now. a habit. ' "I was librarian .-at a • circulating library, and before that I was in a furniture store. I'have written about a furniture storo in the book. . "My novel at the beginning'and the end 19 somewhat of an autobiography, but 1 have never been on the stage, as some people .who have read it suggest I must have been. ■' "My. father is a Nonconformist minister, and I think my mother, who is dead, wrote a novel just after her marriage with my father,.but it was never 'published." ' . •■ v ...■ ■■ •The new authoress is about twenty-one years of age, with a very quiet-speaking voice, and with, an almost shy manner. "She has- expressive blue eyes and. a pleasant sniile. ;She was .bom. at Portsmouth, and educated at Melton. Mount College;, a school: for daughters of Nonconformist ministers...' '...