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Miss Ferrier's Novels
September 13, 1883 issue

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The article discusses the book "Miss Ferrier's Novels." Miss Ferrier was, in point of natural ability, far above the average novel-writer of to-day. Nothing, again, can be more absolutely inartistic than Miss Ferrier's plots. The plot of "Inheritance" is supplied by the Douglas case, but the book would have been far better if, as in "Marriage," Miss Ferrier had dropped all ideas of mystery and dramatic complication. Every one of her personages is merely the embodiment of some one quality. Miss Ferrier's heroes and heroines, in short, in their goodness, in their folly, in their wickedness, exhibit a simplicity of character quite foreign to the Englishmen or Englishwomen personally known to George Eliot, to Trollope, or to Gaskell.

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MISS Ferrier's Novels (Book); BOOKS; WOMEN authors; CHARACTERS & characteristics in literature; PRIDE & vanity; GOOD & evil; FICTION
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