Lovers' Meeting is a 1940 novel by the British writer Eleanor Smith.Vinson p.634The New Yorker, Volume 16, Issue 2. F-R Publishing Corporation, 1940. p.59 Its historical setting and time travelling drew comparisons to Henry James' novel The Sense of the Past and its stage version Berkeley Square.Garrett, Eileen Jeanette. Tomorrow, Volume 1. Garrett Publications, 1941. p.28 Set in 1812 during the Regency era, it Smith's only novel to venture into fantasy.Pringle p.554 Before her death in 1945, Smith brought an injunction against Ealing Studios claiming that their new film of the same title was an attempt to capitalise on her unconnected novel. It was subsequently retitled as The Captive Heart on its release.The Film Weekly, Volume 56. M.C. Brennan, 1946. p.36
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