One typical critical response to Hetty Dorval can be found in the New York Times Book Review. There Seymour Krim
wrote: It has in it just enough solid merit to make its ultimate failure...
Literary responses
Ethel Wilson
Negative reviews seemed to repeat Macmillan
's original worry that the collection was half-cooked. Aunt Topaz was characterized by the Canadian Forum as a terrible bore, whom the reviewer found almost as tiresome to...
