Arnold Bennett
seems to have admired this novel enough to review it twice. Writing as Sarah Volatile (from sal volatile, meaning smelling salts) in Hearth and Home, he recommended it to his readers as...
Literary responses
George Paston
Brittenham
judges that this novel well reflects GP
's love for the eighteenth century, while another critic, Margaret Stetz
, deems it her most conventional work in its confirmation of marriage values.
Stetz, Margaret, and George Paston. “Introduction”. A Writer of Books, Academy Chicago Publishers, p. v - xiv.
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Textual Features
George Paston
Though this novel shares some terrain with Gissing
's New Grub Street, critic Margaret Stetz
finds that the two have little in common, since they take aim at very different aspects of the contemporary...
Reception
Michael Field
After being ignored (or scorned) during parts of their writing life, Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper have been resurrected in recent years by literary scholars interested in the rich field their work offers for...