+ Bookm 52:356 D ’20 1250w
“Few writers have at once the intimate acquaintance and the analytic tendency to put forward such keen and living figures. We can hope to possess very few such living documents as is this record of the last forty years.” D. L. Mann
+ Boston Transcript p4 N 27 ’20 1400w
Reviewed by H: W. Nevinson
+ − Nation 111:sup657 D 8 ’20 1900w
“Being a woman born into a society where her game was to be charming, and where she had no chance to be seriously educated, we find her at the age of fifty-six publishing idiocies that Marie Bashkirtseff was too sophisticated to utter at fourteen, and never once attaining Marie Bashkirtseff’s noble realization that ‘if this book is not the exact, the absolute, the strict truth, it has no raison d’être.’” F. H.
− + New Repub 25:77 D 15 ’20 2600w
“Her lack of reticence is, plainly, offensive to good taste. It is not the less offensive because it is apparently entirely unconscious. The surprising thing is, however, that with all the material for interesting memoirs that Mrs Asquith should have stored away in her mind, she has given us relatively so little that is of any permanent value.” Stanley Went
− + N Y Evening Post p8 D 4 ’20 1700w
“The book is fascinating from the first page to the last.”