Two sisters and their mother face poverty after their father’s sudden death.
For Sidgwick, see Novels 082, 142, 200, 258, and 316.
“A thoroughly good story.” Academy, April 20, 1895
The author “has both ‘detachment’ and wit”; an “original and engrossing novel.” Athenaeum, April 27, 1895
“A bright, clever story”; the author’s “portraiture, mordant as it is, is hardly cynical, or even ungenial”; the heroine is “admirably conceived and not less admirably executed.” Spectator, August 31, 1895
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