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Women as they are. A Novel. By Mrs. Parsons. Author of Mysterious Warnings etc. Lane 1796
Although there are many instructive lessons presented in this novel, we fear there is less amusement than our young readers will expect. As a composition, the story is often deficient in interest, the events, however various, being of the common kind, and ending in a manner which cannot fail to be anticipated. The fault of which we complained in noticing Mysterious Warnings* occurs here likewise, the author introducing a number of persons and events, which have no connection with the principal story, and unnecessarily interrupt the reader's attention. We must also take the liberty to add, that Mrs. Parsons ought to have thrown some ingredients into the composition of her heroine, more capable of accounting for her fall from virtue than mere vanity. Upon the whole, however, Women as they are is one of those novels which seem to detach pleasure from its alliance with vice, and may be safely recommended to those young persons whose taste has not been vitiated by an absurd attachment to what is unnatural or mysterious. *See Crit. Rev. Vol XVI p. 474. [complete]
Provided by Karen Morton, December 1999.
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