Brittenham
judges that this novel well reflects GP
's love for the eighteenth century, while another critic, Margaret Stetz
, deems it her most conventional work in its confirmation of marriage values.
Stetz, Margaret, and George Paston. “Introduction”. A Writer of Books, Academy Chicago Publishers, 1999, p. v - xiv.
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In the Dictionary of Literary BiographyRebecca Brittenham
likens this novel's play on gothic convention to Jane Austen
's Northanger Abbey.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Paston sets her novel in a country house, where an innocent young...