In Elizabeth Robins's own day she was best known as a dramatic interpreter of Henrik Ibsen heroines and as the author of The Magnetic North (1904). A pivotal moment in the decline of her reputation as a writer was the reception of The Mills of the Gods and Other Stories (1920) by female modernists Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. Both found the stories aesthetically old-fashioned. "The war withered a generation before its time," wrote Woolf in her review of The Mills of the Gods and Other Stories in the Times Literary Supplement (17 June 1920). Woolf, Mansfield, and Rebecca West thought that Robins's artistry, shaped by late-nineteenth-century and Edwardian generic tastes and forms and the tenor of a sexually conservative pre-World War I feminism, needed to be transcended. Since the late 1970s feminist critics and historians have celebrated Robins's theatrical innovations as performer, actress-manager, and playwright, as well as the documentary scope...