Elizabeth Gunning

Miss Gunning. The War-Office: a Novel. By Miss Gunning.

London:  Published for the Author by M. Jones, No. 1, Paternoster-Row, 1803.

 

Contemporary Reviews

Flowers of Literature, 2 (1803), 465

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Monthly Visitor, ns, v3 (Feb. 1803), 206

The War Office, a Novel. By Miss Gunning, author of The Packet-Farmer's Boy, &c. &c. In three volumes. 12s. Jones.

     The war-office in times of PEACE! Surely it is necessary we should have done with every thing relating to hostility-happily scenes of desolation and slaughter are no more! But let not the reader be alarmed-here nothing will be found to injure his benevolent feelings -for the incidents detailed are calculated to confirm and augment our love of humanity. The story on the whole, is well conducted, and its tendency favourable to the interests of the rising generation.
     There are some young persons, particularly females, who cannot be induced to look into a publication which comes not under the rank of novels. To such we recommend this caution-that they should always endeavour to avoid trash, and to peruse those few novels which will ensure their improvement.

Union Magazine and Imperial Register, 4 (Dec. 1802), 399-400

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