Abstract

Citoyenne Jacqueline

The article focuses on the book "Citoyenne Jacqueline: A Woman's Lot in the Great French Revolution," by Sarah Tytler. This novel seems to deserve cordial praise for the good thing that it is, and, especially if the author is young, cordial encouragement for the other good things that it promises. It shows the marks of a clear and lively intellect, sound and kind feeling, the noble power of admiring and representing noble characters, much reading and, as people think, inherent mental elegance; for most of the superficial blemishes on which they are presently to have mercy tempered with justice, probably come quite as much of the presence of haste as of the absence of taste. The story, beginning with the early summer of 1702, and running through a period of about two years, follows pretty closely the history of the times in pool revolutionary France.