An heiress, married for her money by one bad man, is tempted by another.
For Radecliffe, see Novels 005, 105, and 157.
“The people in Sybilla Lockwood are more like . . . ‘humans’ than people in stories usually are.” Saturday Review, July 30, 1864
“The novel is a very extraordinary one. The subject is . . . adultery. . . . We cannot think ‘Sybilla Lockwood’ at all fitted for general reading. . . .Otherwise the execution, though not brilliant, is singularly faultless. The motives and the conduct of the different characters bear a rational relation to each other.” Spectator, August 13, 1864
A contrasting view:
“There is not in ‘Sybilla Lockwood’ sufficient weight of interest to carry the reader through the private affairs of the numerous characters. . . . The novel is badly constructed, being merely a bundle of personal histories, with no plot or story to bind them together.” Athenaeum, September 10, 1864
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