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The Natural Daughter. With Portraits of the Leadenhead Family. A Novel. By Mrs Robinson. 2 Vols. 12mo. 7s. Longman and Rees. 1799.
From a perusal of the first pages of this novel we were led to expect a production superior to the general trash of the circulating library: we have, however, been completely disappointed; nor can the interspersion of a few pieces of elegant poetry, in these two volumes, protect them from the unqualified censure which the absurd improbability of the incidents related in them, and the plotless insipidity of the story, demand. The characters of Martha and Mrs Morley, on their introduction to the notice of the reader, give promise of interesting if not of original delineation; but the promise is not fulfilled; and we are sorry to remark, that, in the present instance, Mrs Robinson has produced a novel which is not likely to obtain a high rank even among the common-place effusions that periodically regale the not very fastidious appetites of subscription readers. [complete]
Provided by Julie A. Shaffer, January 2000
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