“The most satisfactory chapter is that describing the position of the illegitimate child. The book is marked by the tension of the long war and the superficial disillusions of peace, and her summary of present tendencies seems too incoherent and egotistic to have much value.” N. C.
− + Int J Ethics 31:119 O ’20 230w + Nation 111:135 Jl 31 ’20 260w
“It is with some hesitation that one sets to work to criticise a book such as ‘Women’s wild oats,’ for one wants to recognize its courage and its sincerity, and at the same time one disagrees with certain points of view, as one necessarily must when one is dealing with the work which touches so many sides of a great question. One thing we can say is that Mrs Hartley is always honest and always wise.” W. L. George
+ − N Y Times p1 S 12 ’20 2150w
Reviewed by K. F. Gerould
Review 3:377 O 27 ’20 900w
“‘Women’s wild oats’ is less sensational than its title, though it contains much that will provoke dissent. It is a sober and earnest book, at once incisive and felicitous in style, but it must be believed that in her diagnosis of social tendencies in England there is some exaggeration. A certain captiousness—one might almost say, querulousness—in Mrs Hartley leads her very close to inconsistency.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Je 6 ’20 580w The Times [London] Lit Sup p143 F 26 ’20 100w
“The book is an irritating mixture of good sense, violent prejudice, and a most trying method of using the English language.”
− + The Times [London] Lit Sup p196 Mr 25 ’20 850w