“The domestic scenes revealing their difficulties are perhaps the best in the book.”
+ Ath p80 Jl 16 ’20 110w + Booklist 17:162 Ja ’21
“Miss Wylie’s straightforward and felicitous style is an unmixed delight.”
+ N Y Evening Post p17 D 4 ’20 390w
“The author fails signally to answer the question she raises. ‘Children of storm’ contains some dramatic passages and some character-revealing dialogue, but the author cannot be said to meet satisfactorily the artistic demands of her self-imposed, ambitious theme.”
− + N Y Times p18 D 5 ’20 560w
“The final reconciliation of husband and wife through the husband’s endeavour to settle labour troubles is, however, not quite convincing. The writer obviously has fine but vague ideals at the back of her mind for the improvement of the life of the workers, but she does not quite succeed in imparting them to the reader.”
+ − Spec 124:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“In the first chapters Miss Wylie writes with truth and without partisanship, so that you see this struggle from every side, sympathize with every character and feel their inevitable sorrows. It is ... partly perhaps that Miss Wylie was in a hurry to bring her tale out of tragedy to a triumphant conclusion, which makes the end of the book melodrama. It is good melodrama, but by comparison with the first part of the book superficial and theatrical.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p422 Jl 1 ’20 600w