Thomas Benjamin Kennington, The Wedding Dress
A dressmaker crashes a ball in the dress she was hired to make.
For Hart, see Novels 006, 140, and 239.
“The incidents are slightly improbable, but cleverly strung together. . . . The sooner the story is dramatized the better, for after reading the book we want to see the play.” Boston Globe, March 7, 1876
“An impossible story, with some very painful incongruities, and not a few betrayals of intellectual feebleness on the part of the author. And yet we imagine that there are many respectable three-volume English novels without half its brightness, and ingenuity, and readableness; many novels, of apparently much more thought, without anything like the natural quality, the insight, and even the poetry of this entertaining little book.” Scribner’s, May, 1876
The heroine’s charm is such as to “disarm any critical faculty which the reader may possess, which is fortunate, as otherwise sensible persons might feel obliged, in justice to themselves, to declare it was all nonsense all together.” Athenaeum, September 2, 1876
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