“In general, the smart and good-natured aphorisms in which the book abounds seem to us as remote from reality as is the framework of the story.”
– + Ath. 1906, 1: 634. My. 26. 330w.
“In ‘The subjection of Isabel Carnaby’, Miss Fowler has come almost within sight of the borderland of the masterpieces.”
+ + Lit. D. 33: 645. N. 3, ’06. 200w.
“Somewhat long and extremely loquacious new novel. The author is far too deeply engaged in upholding a thesis to linger for long over any of the facts which she chronicles.”
– Lond. Times. 5: 170. My. 11, 06. 530w.
“The combination of fun with brilliance is her own, absolutely. Her ceaseless sense of the incongruity of congruities, and vice versa, makes an effect as of punning with ideas. There are a few excellent little sermons in the book, and many evidences that the writer thinks her thoughts in the language of David and Paul.”
+ – Nation. 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 640w.
“Mrs. Felkin appears to be a good woman and a loving wife who had nothing particular to say, and in the course of 357 pages has said it very well.”