+ Booklist 16:346 Jl ’20 + Boston Transcript p8 Je 12 ’20 950w
“Reads like a case book on the ‘Oedipus complex.’ But in spite of the author’s effort to get everything right according to Freud it is not a bad story.”
+ − Ind 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“The story is woven with great delicacy and with unobtrusive skill and is remarkably interesting. Yet it is doubtful whether really great fiction would thrive on so much scientific awareness.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − Nation 111:74 Jl 17 ’20 750w
“‘An imperfect mother’ is certainly one of the best of the recent English novels. The author is secure in the consciousness of a ripe and finely developed art.” W. H. C.
+ New Repub 24:52 S 8 ’20 900w
“It is all symmetrical enough. And yet it is all quite unconvincing. It is even uninteresting. Cecilia alone emerges—a splendid creature bursting through the murky moralities of stuffy Medboro.”
− + N Y Times 25:264 My 23 ’20 700w