The Times—“Related with an engaging naïveté.”
The Daily Chronicle—“A book of rare and irresistible charm.”
The Westminster Gazette—“Miss Hill’s investigations are fruitful, and her delightful book is pervaded by a sense of actuality that is not its least charming quality.”
The Globe—“The volume, which is freely as well as excellently illustrated, has more than a literary interest and value, for it supplies pleasing and instructive sketches of upper middle-class life in England more than a century ago.”
The Spectator—“This book is a valuable contribution to Austen lore.”
The World—“A thoroughly delightful book.”
The Literary World—“Enthusiastic Austenians as we confess ourselves, we hasten to acknowledge our debt to Miss Constance Hill for the addition she makes to Austeniana. The pilgrimage she has made to the homes and haunts of Jane Austen and her friends yields a volume with which we should now be loth to part.”
The Guardian—“Books are always pleasant to read which are simply written as the readiest means of expressing a deep and thorough sympathy with their subject. This is undoubtedly the case with the present volume.”
The Pilot—“The book which Miss Hill has written and her sister has illustrated should be an indispensable shelf-mate to the novels of the incomparable Jane.”
The Daily Telegraph—“Miss Constance Hill, the authoress of this charming book, has laid all devout admirers of Jane Austen and her inimitable novels under a debt of gratitude.”