“Mrs Ward cannot be judged by ‘Harvest,’ It is a plain mystery novel; it bears the impress of her desire to emerge from the library and to walk in the cornfields—in the new land which is war-time England. But she is unhappy in such surroundings and her serenity is gone.” K. M.
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“It would be an injustice to Mrs Ward to say that ‘Harvest’ is in any degree worthy of a novelist of her reputation, or indeed of many a novelist of lesser reputation. ‘Harvest,’ in common with its immediate predecessor, ‘Helena,’ and many of her later stories, might have been written by any one of a hundred English fiction writers of the hour. It is utterly conventional in form, and commonplace in plot and characterization.” E. F. E.
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“Written in that smoothly flowing style to which Mrs Ward’s readers have so long been accustomed, the book, while not indeed equal to her best, shows no falling off from the standard set by her recent work, but on the contrary rises somewhat above it. The novel contains some lovely pictures of the English country.” L. M. Field
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“It is with peculiar pleasure that one recognizes in the late Mrs Humphry Ward’s posthumous novel, ‘Harvest,’ the qualities that have marked the very best of her fiction writing. This tale of rural England in war time is notable for the balance and unity of theme and development. It is almost astonishingly superior, for instance, to ‘Helena.’”
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“I for one should be unhappy if it were necessary for me to remember Mrs Ward by this book.” H. W. Boynton