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Art. 22. Lætitia [sic]; or, the Castle without a Spectre. By Mrs Hunter, of Norwich. Four Volumes. 12mo. 1l. 1s. Longman and Rees. 1801.
This performance ought rather to have been entitled the three Lætitias, for there are no less than circumstantial memoirs of three heroines of that name.
The author possesses considerable merit as a writer, as well as an observer of human life and manners. Her discriminations are just and accurate; and there is a variety in her episodes, which, at the same time that it shows great vigour of imagination, fatigues the attention. The first volume is undoubtedly the best; but the whole is superior to the majority of similar publications. [complete]
Provided by Julie A. Shaffer, January 2000
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