“Judged as a work of art the book fails. The structure is stumbling and plodding: the style second-rate journalism. The characterization, with the admirable exception of the redoubtable Mrs Warren herself (she shows Sir Harry’s loving study of Dickens), is singularly superficial and conventional.” S. C. C.
− + New Repub 23:157 Je 30 ’20 800w
“Unfortunately, it puts not its best but its worst foot foremost, the poorest part of it being the first, in which occurs Vivie’s preposterous masquerade. It is not until the last third of the book and its sixteenth chapter are reached that the novel really begins to be distinctly interesting. This sixteenth chapter is headed ‘Brussels and the war: 1914.’”
+ − N Y Times 25:280 My 30 ’20 1200w
“The interest is of a queer nature, but it certainly exists.”
+ Outlook 125:431 Je 30 ’20 140w
“‘Mrs Warren’s daughter’ by contrast [with ‘The Gay-Dombeys’] is a laborious invention.” H. W. Boynton
− Review 3:709 Jl 7 ’20 300w
“We move in an atmosphere of sentimental romance, by no means disagreeable, but miles apart from everything which we associate with the initials G. B. S.”
+ − Sat R 129:456 My 15 ’20 450w