ATHENÆUM.--“It is seldom indeed that we find a collection of stories
so uniformly good as _The Victories of Olivia_.... The author is
particularly happy when writing of children and young people, her
delineations of their thoughts, conversation, and point of view all
being touched with delightful humour and understanding. If one story
more than another lingers in the memory, it is, perhaps, that of
_Jimmy’s Aunts_, whose spare room ‘had never before held anything so
young as thirteen-and-a-half, or so masculine as the possessor of a
bowling average.’ The dialogue is refreshingly witty and to the point
throughout.”
PUNCH.--“We have long held that for a certain type of _conte_--brief,
rather mordant, impressionist studies of modern life--Miss Sharp is
without her equal.”
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.--“The briskness of movement in the tales and the
never-failing vivacity of their narrator will commend them to all
alike.”