“Well worth while, not only as an addition to Stevensoniana, but also as a picture of a very interesting woman.”
+ Booklist 16:241 Ap ’20
“To the Stevensonian, this book is a mine of delight. It sets down what has never before been sufficiently made clear, that Mrs Stevenson was, in her own way, as remarkable and as gifted as her husband.” Christopher Morley
+ Bookm 51:356 My ’20 850w + Boston Transcript p6 Mr 3 ’20 2650w + Cleveland p73 Ag ’20 150w
“So interesting that one could wish it more extended. We are inclined to think the book better worth while than anything that has been printed about Stevenson since the Letters.’”
+ Outlook 124:431 Mr 10 ’20 150w
“This concise and vivid narrative reveals Mrs Stevenson clearly as the splendid woman she was, but it also reveals her, first and last, as the reason why the literary world today possesses some of the most highly valued of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.”
+ Springf’d Republican p6 My 3 ’20 600w
“One might venture to say she has written a manly book. She has drawn the character of a frank and courageous woman with a straightforwardness that would surely have pleased its possessor.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p699 O 28 ’20 2000w