If Mrs. E. F. Pinsent be, as we suspect, a new writer, she is to be congratulated upon the first fruits of her endeavour. “Jenny’s Case” (London: Sonnenschein) is an honest and satisfactory piece of work and suffers nothing from the author’s strict observance of the conventional laws of form. The story is no more than the tale of the rustic girl who loves too well, and suffers the common penalty of her kind … (continues) … … The policeman marries respectably: and the end of it all is a murder in a spinney – a murder which the most inferior novelist could not have failed to imagine, but which is justified by the preceding facts of Mrs. Pinsent’s narrative. But its plot is not the sole virtue of Jenny’s Case. The characters, and especially the minor characters, are rightly conceived and act in accord with logic and probability. … The dialect hails from the North Midlands and may trouble the casual reader: yet even here Mrs. Pinsent has been at pains to work off the effect of absolute realism. … (continues) … …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949