Evelyn de Morgan, The Soul's Prison House
A quiet young woman introduces her best friends to one another, with unexpected consequences.
Here is another novel by Butt (see Novel 045). It has several vivid characters, and three plots, of which the most prominent is also the best.
“Delicia is one of those womanly portraits that can be drawn only by a high-minded writer. . . . On the whole, the story will repay the reader’s trouble.” Athenaeum, July 5, 1879
“That ‘Delicia’ is a good novel nobody who has read it can have the slightest doubt.” It is good because of “the strength, the delicacy, and the freshness of the character-drawing, and . . . the interest of the story. . . . The Stevens family . . . is really a triumph in its way. It has all the truth to English domestic life. . . . We have not read so good a novel as ‘Delicia’ this year.” Examiner, July 19, 1879
“Without aspiring to the highest place, it is none the less one of the few books where there is nothing we could wish added or taken away. This calm sufficiency and graceful tact in proportioning ambition to resources, if not exactly genius, is near akin to it.” Academy, August 30, 1879
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