William Lush
in his Athenæum review opened by invoking the reputation of FM
's father
, and judged that his daughter's first experiment in fiction was exceedingly good, showing great descriptive power and commanding...
Literary responses
Florence Marryat
William Lush
, who had reviewed FM
's first work for the Athenæum, was severely disappointed with this one. He found the plot thin, the characters wooden, their behaviour unconvincing, and their vicissitudes incapable...
