Andrew Becket

When the fourth volume appeared in 1789, the Critical found it heavy, languid and uninteresting, and judged the serial publication to have been a mistake. Andrew Becket in the Monthly and Mary Wollstonecraft

EST 's brother Thomas Edlyne included a poem in praise of The Victim of Fancy in their joint volume in 1797. The Gentleman's Magazinecalled this novel, when it was published, a worthy successor...

An extensive notice, perhaps by Mary Wollstonecraft , in the Analytical Review, says this novel is distinguished among others by its quality, yet shares their general tendency to debauch the mind (especially...

Mary Wollstonecraft , reviewing Ethelinde for the Analytical Review, praised Smith's sharp eye, as a member of the upper class herself, for that class's failings. The Critical praised her great merit overall (in story...

Andrew Becket 's in the Monthly is a less remarkable review. He denies that the book has novelty or any particularly striking features, though it shows a feeling heart and some skill in delivering its...

This novel was written at such an early age, said RMR , that some people thought it was really the work of her father . A review, perhaps by Wollstonecraft , in the Analytical Review...

The two albums comprising the manuscript had been transcribed in Rotterdam while in the custody of the Rev. Benjamin Sowden , by young men on their travels, who borrowed it overnight and managed to copy...

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...

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...

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...

Andrew Becket in the Monthly Review thought this novel dull and derivative; confronted with Elizabeth Bonhote 's anonymous Olivia a few months later he thought the two suspiciously similar. The English Review...

This book divided the reviewers. The Critical thought it ill-written, worse printed; without ingenuity, novelty, or pathos, while Andrew Becket in the Monthly judged the author (whom he supposed to be male) superior to most...

The Critical Review thought the moral good, some characters and the structure original in conception, but the dream of novelty a delusion and the execution weak and abortive.Andrew Becket in the...

Some reviews were highly respectful. The Critical, while it just touched on too great a profusion of ornamental description, concentrated on good points. The story is conducted with great skill; intricately entangled, without too...