Elizabeth Gunning

Miss Gunning. The Farmer's Boy; a Novel. By Miss Gunning.

London:  B. Crosby & Co.; T. Hurst, and M. Jones, 1802.

Contemporary Reviews

Annual Review, 1 (1802), 722-23. [This review is available on the CW3 Website]

Monthly Visitor, ns, v2 (Nov. 1802), 313.

The Farmer's Boy, a Novel. In 4 Vols. By Miss Gunning, author of "Love at first Sight," "Gypsy Countess," &c. In 4 Vols.

     The multitude of novels issuing from the press affords a fascinating variety to novel readers of every description. That the majority of them are either pernicious or insipid, may be easily conceived; and it is with us a deep regret that there should be such a constant demand for them, since the historic page is much more conducive to improvement. However, we would by no means be understood to condemn all novels; there are many well written and instructive publications of this kind, and among which the Farmer's Boy must be reckoned. With several parts of the narrative we were pleased; and we are of opinion, that the present performance will not detract from that reputation which the fair writer has acquired on former occasions. In the present production, she evinces a perfect acquaintance with genteel life, in which she has been brought up from her childhood.

Union Magazine and Imperial Register, 4 (Nov. 1802) 335.

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-Prepared by Margaret Case Croskery, Ohio Northern University, July 2003