It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.

Her coming to terms with this hostile world provides the fictional interest of [her] novels. "The Proselyte the story of a London woman who marries a Mormon missionary and moves with him to Utah was one of her most highly praised books (even Mormons felt that in "her story the hardships and sorrows of the people are clearly portrayed"). S.

One of her later works In the Cool of the Day was the source of an eponymous movie in 1963 starring Jane Fonda Peter Finch and Angela Lansbury. " She was born in Walton-on-Thames Surrey England to American parents Charles and Mary Ertz. Susan Ertz (1894 – 11 April 1985) was a British fiction writer and novelist known for her "sentimental tales of genteel life in the country.