“Ethel Sidgwick is one of the half-dozen women writers who are contributing work of real value to modern English fiction.”—Sunday Times.
PROMISE
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“She appears to us to possess that true imaginative gift, as distinguished from the mere power of vivid reporting, which is the necessary qualification for continuing to produce work of permanent value in fiction.”—Times.
“For a first novel ‘Promise’ is exceptionally able—one that should have notable successors.”—Nation.
“We are left to hope that the life of this English Jean Christophe will continue through at least another volume, filled with people as variegated and attractive as those to whom we are introduced in this.”—Spectator.
“It is difficult to imagine anything being better in its kind than ‘Promise.’ It is the account of a human life from infancy up to the early beginning of a public career—one only wishes it were to be continued in another volume!”—Chicago Evening Post.
LE GENTLEMAN:
An Idyll of the Quarter
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