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.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
64 (1787): 481
Andrew Becket
in the...
Literary responses
Cassandra Lady Hawke
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...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Helme
EH
wrote later that she did not find the Gentlemen Reviewers terrible, as described.
Helme, Elizabeth. Clara and Emmeline. G. Kearsley, 1788, 2 vols.
1: ii
The Critical Review called this a pleasing little artless tale, much superior, both in its plan and conduct, to...
Publishing
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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...
