A woman is faithful to an erring lover.
Here is another entirely excellent novel by the unjustly unsung Glaister, for whom see Novel 106.
A “ladylike novelette. . . . On the whole, the tone of this little story is high, and its literary merit is not small.” Athenaeum, August 23, 1879
“The story of an unhappy love, which the writer contrives to tell without leaving a painful impression.” Spectator, March 20, 1879
A (somewhat) contrasting view:
“Carefully and loyally as A Constant Woman is written, its main thread is of coarsest fibre. . . . It is not that the story is coarse or unreal in tone, for it describes a narrow and commonplace phase of life with fidelity and even force. . . . The characters, too, are natural enough. . . . But we entirely fail to discover what peculiarly high or healthy inspiration the youthful mind can draw from this fount of straitlaced villainy and genteel sharp practice. . . . When The Constant Woman is put into young miss’s hands it is high time to hunt for Not Wisely, but Too Well, beneath her pillow.” Academy, August 16, 1880
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