John Noorthouck

The Critical thought this novel would please readers, but only for a time, as a novelty.John Noorthouck in the Monthly, who assumed the author to be a man, sounded jaundiced...

The Critical Review argued that EG had already earned a kind of prescriptive right to the favour of criticism, and that she lived up to her reputation here with elegance of style, chasteness of sentiment...

The Critical Review praised some specific scenes (such as Amabel's desperate illness at an inn), the exotic adventures (frequently interesting, and sometimes highly pathetic), and the well-realised protagonist...

The Critical Review evaluated this novel respectfully, calling it pleasing and interesting, but John Noorthouck , writing in the Monthly, dismissed it impatiently as one of the regrettably numerous progeny of Samuel Richardson .