"A pretty book. A sweet pretty book. Buy it" is not the most informative review I've ever seen. #VictorianBookReviewing
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#SaturdayReview on religious novels: "They are like nothing that is, or ever was, or ever will be." #Ouch #VictorianBookReviewing
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"...we have had rather too many fictitious Jesuits lately" #VictorianBookReviewing
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"A controversial novel is generally stupid as a fiction..." #Athenaeum #VictorianBookReviewing #TellUsWhatYouThink
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"the voluntary confessions of pious auto-anatomists" #QuarterlyReviewOnMrsSherwood #NotAPositiveReview #VictorianBookReviewing
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"The work [...] is so certain of speedy oblivion, that the authorship is a matter of very little moment." #VictorianBookReviewing
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If you know your lit history, describing a novel as the "Evangelico-Minerva type" is a *really* spectacular insult. #VictorianBookReviewing
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"a very dull and very expensive work" #VictorianBookReviewing
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"The dialogue is almost always clever, but far from being germane to the matter." #VictorianBookReviewing
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"The reviewer does not feel any great respect for religious novels or religious novelists." #BadReviewOfMrsSherwood #VictorianBookReviewing
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2: "We fail to detect this in the book before us." #VictorianBookReviewing
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"...when we are treated with two prudential marriages in one day." #VictorianBookReviewing
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"[W]ill amuse readers who do not ask for too much" is applicable to so many novels. #VictorianBookReviewing #Spectator
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"Feeble frivolity" is nicely alliterative. #VictorianBookReviewing #VictorianBookReviewersWereNotNice
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