“A remarkable personality lives in these pages ... but the maps suffer from a somewhat puzzling arrangement of arrows, and too much textual detail.”
+ − Sat R 129:279 Mr 20 ’20 780w + − The Times [London] Lit Sup p163 Mr 11 ’20 1500w
TOWNSHEND, GLADYS ETHEL GWENDOLEN EUGENIE (SUTHERST) TOWNSHEND, marchioness. Widening circle. *$2 (2½c) Appleton
20–12812
The story begins realistically with an account of the girlhood of two sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret Sutherland, who are shuttled back and forth between affluence and penury by their father’s speculations. Meg, the practical minded one, marries Lord Stranmore, a man twice her age, and is very happy in her marriage. Elizabeth meets a prince in disguise and from this point on the book becomes a fairy tale.
“The unreality of it cannot fail to appall any adult of sensibility who peeps into its pages.”
− N Y Times p25 O 24 ’20 520w
“Reality, or even probability, counts for nothing in novels written for flappers, male and female, for shop girls and errand boys. Of incredible nonsense is this tale made up.”
− Sat R 128:537 D 6 ’19 450w