Edinburgh Evening News.—"It has certainly an audacious idea for its central motive.... This bright idea is handled with no little skill, and the interest is kept up breathlessly until the tragic end of the experiment. The whole story has a racy flavour of the turf."
Sporting Life.—"The character of the heartless roue, who tells his story, is very well sustained, and the rich parvenu, Peter Drewitt, the owner of the favourite that is very nearly nobbled by the unscrupulous Beauclerc, is cleverly drawn. Altogether it is an exciting and an uncommon tale, and is quite correct in all the sporting details."
Anna Marsden's Experiment. An interesting Novel. By Ellen Williams. Crown 8vo, art cloth, 2s. 6d.
Outlook.—"A good story cleverly told and worked out."
Echo.—"A very natural and interesting tale is carefully set forth in Ellen Williams' clever little book."
Western Morning News.—"It is a smartly written and deeply interesting story, well out of the beaten track of novelists."
Literary World.—"The story is well told.... Four racy chapters take us thus far, and seven lively ones follow."
Public Opinion.—"From this point the interest in the story is such that there is no putting the book down till the dénouement is reached. The writing is smart, clever, and telling."
Critic.—"A powerful story, unconventional as regards both subject and treatment. [Here the reviewer analyses the plot.] This situation is handled with extraordinary delicacy and skill, and the book is an admirable study of repressed emotions."
Monitor.—"Miss Williams has here seized on an original concept, and given it fitting presentation. The 'experiment' is a novel one, and its working out is a deft piece of writing. The psychology of the work is faultless, and this study of a beautiful temperament, in a crude frame, has with it the verity of deep observation and acute insight.... We await with considerable confidence Miss Williams' next venture."