She did not wholly deserve it: but it must be said that nothing she wrote can really be ranked as literature, save on the most indiscriminate and uncritical estimate.

It is, however, difficult to see much harm in her.
_Ida of Athens_, for instance, which shocked contemporaries, and which, by the way, has the very large first title of _Woman_, could only bring a blush to cheeks very tickle of that sere: a yawn might come much more easily.

The most shocking thing that the heroine, who is "an attempt to delineate woman in her natural state," does (and that not of malice) is to receive her lover in a natural bathroom.

But her adventures are told in a style which is the oddest compound of Romantesque and Johnsonese.
("The hour was ardent.

The bath was cool.