Indeed, Mrs. Gilman has not intended her book so much as a treatise for scholars as a surgical operation on the popular mind.
—The Critic, New York.
Whatever Mrs. Gilman writes, people read—approving or protesting, still they read.
—Republican, Springfield, Mass.
Full of thought and of new and striking suggestions. Tells what the average woman has and ought not keep, what she is and ought not be.
—Literature World.
But it is safe to say that no more stimulating arraignment has ever before taken shape and that the argument of the book is noble, and, on the whole, convincing.
—Congregationalist, Boston.
The name of this author is a guarantee of logical reasoning, sound economical principles and progressive thought.
—The Craftsman, Syracuse.