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Novel 136: Margaret Agnes Paul, De Cressy (1856)

Evelyn de Morgan, Cadmus and Harmonia
Evelyn de Morgan, Cadmus and Harmonia

An impoverished but virtuous young lady attracts the love of a lord.

Here is another novel by Paul (see Novel 025):  ambivalent characters find themselves entangled in a subtle and apparently intractable conflict—until the author, out of time, or patience, or paper, suddenly resolves it by sending two characters to heaven and a third to South America.

“The persons have much consistency and reality about them; spirit is equable and well sustained throughout.”  Spectator, June 28, 1856

It is “written in an unpretending, pleasing style.”  Saturday Review, July 26, 1856

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