In 2001, The Guardian Gareth McLean stated that while she has avoided being typecast, Raquel "may be the role for which she is best known". Fellow Guardian writer Paul Flynn observed in 2004 that Lancashire is "assured her place in the national psyche" because of Raquel, and when Lancashire starred in the 2009 BBC drama All the Small Things, The Guardian Lucy Mangan noted that she is "still for many of us trailing clouds of the glorious Raquel Wolstenhulme".
In 2001, The Guardian Gareth McLean stated that while she has avoided being typecast, Raquel "may be the role for which she is best known". Fellow Guardian writer Paul Flynn observed in 2004 that Lancashire is "assured her place in the national psyche" because of Raquel, and when Lancashire starred in the 2009 BBC drama All the Small Things, The Guardian Lucy Mangan noted that she is "still for many of us trailing clouds of the glorious Raquel Wolstenhulme".