+ − N Y Times 25:1 F 29 ’20 1150w N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 70w
“Not Mr Benson’s best work in fiction. The whole [is] thrown together rather than thought out.”
− + Outlook 124:479 Mr 17 ’20 70w
“The story is told with Mr Benson’s usual vivacity, but the conversion of Lady Grote is far less convincing than the elaborate and often acute analysis of her emotions in her unregenerate days.”
+ − Spec 124:179 F 7 ’20 500w
“The closing chapters are beautifully written. Mr Benson is deeply sympathetic without giving way to the strong temptation to be highly sentimental. The characters are excellently individualized.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 700w
“Has the same merits and weaknesses as Mr E. F. Benson’s previous novels.... Mr Benson, in fact, is almost entirely preoccupied with the superficial.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p629 N 6 ’19 460w
BENSON, STELLA. Living alone. *$1.75 Macmillan