Critic Maria Aline Seabra Ferreira
comments that the book combines historical and supernatural elements reminiscent of Marie Corelli
'sThe Sorrows of Satan (1895) with the baroque aspects of Jacobean tragedy. The novel is also...
Literary responses
Marjorie Bowen
Ferreira
suggests that this novel raises several important questions concerning gender stereotyping and society's definition of sexual roles.
Johnson, George M., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 153. Gale Research, 1995.
153: 46
She praises MB
's investigation of male and female paradigms, and speculates on the appeal...