STANDARD.--“We believe _The Charwoman’s Daughter_ marks the arrival
of a novelist who will do great and memorable work in the future....
It is to be hoped that _The Charwoman’s Daughter_ will be widely and
enthusiastically applauded.”
EVENING STANDARD.--“What Mr. Stephens tried to do he has done with
great success. It is safe to prophesy that in the course of the year
scores of writers will set out to do what Mr. Stephens set out to do,
and probably not one of them will meet with anything like his measure
of artistic success.... Will give many honest English men and women
delight of a kind very few novelists give them to-day.”
DAILY NEWS.--“An extraordinarily human drama, drama in which the
performers are real people, with sun and shadow and deepest midnight
in their souls.... Mary is surely one of the most gracious figures
of girlhood in modern fiction. She is made out of music and flowers.
Her elusive, dancing presence in these pages makes _The Charwoman’s
Daughter_ a wholly delightful and buoyant book.”