John Bagnold Burgess, A Spanish Beauty in a Red and Black Lace Shawl
Prevented by tragic family history from marrying the virtuous young lady he loves, a young man seeks his fortune in Brazil.
Here is another novel by Hoey (see Novel 067), with a plot not unreasonably censured by the critics, but several vivid, conflicted characters.
“Upon the whole an interesting and carefully written book.” Athenaeum, September 3, 1870
“There is a great deal of power in this story; and not a little of it is shown in the sketches of character, though less, we think, in the conception of the plot, which is very finely conceived, if not quite as well executed”; it will “earn for Mrs. Cashel Hoey a reputation far above that of the most successful manufacturer of ‘novels of the season.’” Spectator, September 24, 1870
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