Novel 335: Lucy B. Walford, The Mischief of Monica (1891)
Sir William Quiller Orchardson, A Social Eddy (Left by the Tide)
Two fashionable young sisters go to live with their merchant uncle outside Liverpool.
For Walford, see Novels018, 066, 121, 174, 227, and 279.
“Bright and pleasant reading,” with “abundant interest and movement.” Athenaeum, October 10, 1891
It is “certain to be enjoyed”; Walford “has a good deal of . . . persistent and interested wakefulness of sympathetic observation” which gives “a charm to the apparently charmless commonplaces of ordinary life.” Spectator, October 31, 1891
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