Thackeray
's review said, with apparent disdain: Supposing that Pall-mall were the world . . . [this] might be a good guide book. . . . the moral is that which very likely the author...
Literary responses
Ellen Wood
Winifred Hughes
in The Maniac in the Cellar, 1980, also addressed the seeming disjunction between EW
's sympathetic attitude towards her heroine and the fact that this sympathy is contingent upon the heroine's remorse...
Literary responses
Ellen Wood
More recent readers, too, have found EW
's work melodramatic, although its excesses have been seen as having a contemporary resonance. In the words of critic Winifred Hughes
: Her books are pure soap opera...
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Texts
Hughes, Winifred. The Maniac in the Cellar. Princeton University Press, 1980.
