A self-willed girl faces adversity.
Here is another novel by Paul (see Novels 025, 136, 198), featuring as usual carefully realized scenes of ordinary life.
“A pleasant, graceful book, written moreover in an earnest spirit.” Examiner, January 5, 1856
“A good and agreeable specimen of this kind of story; with sufficient variety of interesting occurences and well-drawn persons, a knowledge of society if not of life, and an unhackneyed moral.” Spectator, January 5, 1856
A (slightly) contrasting view:
“‘Dorothy’ is an excellent little story. There are no exciting incidents nor highly-wrought sentiments, but a great deal of excellent delineation of character. . . . A little more dash and vivacity and a greater variety of incident would be desirable in the author's future stories. ‘Dorothy’ is too still and uneventful to interest the general reader as much as the talent it displays merits.” Athenaeum, January 26, 1856
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