Andrew Becket

EH wrote later that she did not find the Gentlemen Reviewers terrible, as described. The Critical Review called this a pleasing little artless tale, much superior, both in its plan and conduct, to...

The Critical Review was a little harsher this time. Though it approved EH 's motivation as a mother, it judged second attempt not equal to her first, and warned that if she was to go...

The Critical found this work entertaining, although lacking in novelty and having characterss who were not particularly interesting. It uttered some scathing comment on novels in general, and placed this work low in the first-class...

Neither the Critical nor the Monthly reviewer (the latter of whom was Andrew Becket ) seems to have looked back at notices of The Gamesters, since both assumed that the author of this novel...