A good man loves a good woman betrothed to a bad man.
Clementina Black (1853-1923), whose sister was the translator Constance Garnett, was a feminist and labor activist as well as the author of a dozen or so works of fiction.
“There is a pathetic charm in Miss Black’s stories which must compel the sympathy of her readers”; this is “distinctly a clever, wholesome, and affecting romance.” Athenaeum, January 17, 1880
“We can . . . speak well of Orlando, and, but for certain longueurs in it, we could speak very well. . . . There is some freshness about most of the characters. . . . The book is rather one of those which one reads with a pleasant and equable feeling of satisfaction than one of those which deserve the terms ‘enthralling,’ ‘entrancing,’ ‘engrossing,’ or any other of the usual laudatory participles. But of its kind it is very far from unsuccessful.” Academy, January 24, 1880
“Miss Black has woven an interesting and touching story out of simple and natural materials.” Saturday Review, April 10, 1880
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