My Mother thought it more entertaining than M. P., but not so interesting as P. and P. No characters in it equal to Lady Catherine or Mr. Collins.
Miss Lloyd thought it as clever as either of the others, but did not receive so much pleasure from it as from P. and P. and M. P.
Fanny Cage liked it very much indeed, and classed it between P. and P. and M. P.
Mrs. and Miss Craven liked it very much, but not so much as the others.
Mr. Sherer did not think it equal to either M. P. (which he liked the best of all) or P. and P. Displeased with my pictures of clergymen.
Miss Bigg, on reading it a second time, liked Miss Bates much better than at first, and expressed herself as liking all the people of Highbury in general, except Harriet Smith, but could not help still thinking her too silly in her loves.
The Family at Upton Gray all very much amused with it. Miss Bates a great favourite with Mrs. Beaufoy.
Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Perrot saw many beauties in it, but could not think it equal to P. and P. Darcy and Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else. Mr. K., however, an excellent character; Emma better luck than a matchmaker often has; pitied Jane Fairfax; thought Frank Churchill better treated than he deserved.
Countess Craven admired it very much, but did not think it equal to P. and P. which she ranked as the very first of its sort.
Mrs. Guiton thought it too natural to be interesting.