“Miss Sichel has done her work well on the whole; in dealing with the correspondence, however she has not always shown discretion. The volume is furnished with a four-page ‘Index;’ from which the more important topics and names appear to have been carefully excluded.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 2: 325. S. 22. 1760w.
“Miss Sichel has given a vivid delineation of a winsome personality. In evident sympathy with her subject, she writes in a way to enlist the reader’s sympathy also.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + Dial. 41: 83. Ag. 16, ’06. 1280w.
Reviewed by Henry C. Beeching.
+ + + Living Age. 250: 242. Jl. 28, ’06. 2730w.
“Miss Sichel has armed herself with so many documents, she has printed such masses of correspondence, and quotations, and confirmatory opinions, as almost to obscure the image she would evoke before us.”
+ – Lond. Times. 5: 178. My. 18, ’06. 2000w. + Nation. 83: 151. Ag. 16, ’06. 450w.
“She might, too, have left a clearer-cut impression by more rigid exercise of her editorial prerogatives in the matter of the correspondence, not all of which seems worthy of preservation. Taken as a whole, her volume is not an unworthy memorial.” H. Addington Bruce.
+ – Outlook. 84: 835. D. 1, ’06. 2810w. + + Spec. 97: 332. S. 8, ’06. 370w.