novel-values

Updated: May 18, 2025

Some, with human respect for the great names of its early admirers, have passed it over gingerly not exactly as willing to wound, but as quite afraid or reluctant to strike. Nay, actual critical evaluations of the novel-values of Miss Burney's four attempts in novel-writing are very rare. I doubt whether very many now living have read Camilla.

George Saintsbury - The English Novel