Daniel Maclise, Yes or No
A virtuous but self-willed young lady with a discreditable family attracts the love of both a faithful farmer and a haughty aristocrat.
Here is a another novel by Mann, for whom see Novels 016 and 154. A priggish clergyman character is especially well done.
“In very few recent novels will there be found anything approaching its grasp of character and firmness of touch. The writer looks at life with a very straight eye. She certainly does not err on the side of idealizing character, and is not at all averse to laughing at those with whom she is on friendly terms. . . . Her characters are not made of ink and paper, but of flesh and blood, and her book has no flimsiness in either its thought or its workmanship.” Bookman, February 1893
For the author it “has clearly been recreation as well as work, and it happens not unnaturally that the reader as well as the writer is recreated. . . . It has impulse, movement, sprightliness, life.” Academy, March 4, 1893
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