The Corvey Novels Project at the University of Nebraska

— Studies in British Literature of the Romantic Period —

 

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Susannah Gunning

Mrs. Gunning. Fashionable Involvements: A Novel. By Mrs. Gunning

London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1800

Contemporary Reviews


Critical Review, ns, v28 (April 1800), 477-78.

Fashionable Involvements: a Novel. By Mrs. Gunning. 3 Vols. 12mo. 10s. 6d. Boards. Longman and Rees. 180.

The [unreadable] of this novel is too slight even for summer wear: the story is uninteresting, the characters are insignificant, and the language is both feeble and vulgar.

Monthly Mirror, 9 (Feb. 1800), 89. [not seen]

New London Review, 3 (Jan. 1800), 83.

Fashionable Involvements; a Novel. By Mrs. Gunning. In 3 Vols. Longman and Rees. 1800.

      The miseries of a life of dissipation are here well depicted; and, were the style of the author herself free from flippancy and fashionable cant, we should be happy to speak of this novel with praise and recommendation. As it is, we greatly fear that the valuable lessons which may be gathered from it, will, in most instances, pass unregarded; while the faults are remembered, admired, and copied.

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