The American reviews were highly flattering. The reviewer for the Boston Transcript could think of no more powerful work from a woman's hand in the English language, not even George Eliot
at her best.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus.
67
Dedications
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB
published another novel, Birds of Prey, serially in Belgravia; it appeared in volume form in October as by the author of Lady Audley's Secret, Aurora Floyd, etc., and dedicated to Charles Reade
.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2085 (1867): 461
Carnell, Jennifer. The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Work. Sensation Press.
383
Literary responses
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
They were in time to reap the full force of Margaret Oliphant
's disapproval in her anti-sensation-novel article in Blackwood's. She found it deeply shocking that leading literary journals were praising Rupert Godwin...
Literary responses
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Margaret Oliphant
's critique of the sensation novel in 1867 relied heavily on attacking MEB
's reputation. The best she would say was that some of Braddon's works deserved some of their success. Braddon's sole...