A reader at Curtis Brown
praised DW
's very shrewd and natural gift of depicting her middle-class characters, while Lord Gorell
at John Murray
wrote: Much her best work and the former was good.
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph.
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Literary responses
Ellen Wood
Charles Wood points this out: such a review was rare, and it directed the whole English-speaking world to the work fortunate enough to gain its notice.
Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. R. Bentley and Son.
