The Tenant of Wildfell Hall he sees as "a reversal of the process carries on in "Jane Eyre"", but Arthur Huntingdon, in his opinion, is "no Rochester". "He is never virtuously inclined, except in those periods of illness and feebleness which his debaucheries have occasioned". Whipple concludes: "The reader of Acton Bell gains no enlarged view of mankind, giving a healthy action to his sympathies, but is confined to a narrow space of life, and held down, as it were, by main force, to witness the wolfish side of his nature literally and logically set forth. But the criminal courts are not the places in
The Seven Sisters (novel) Anna Shapiro, had mixed feelings about the novel, writing that the protagonist Candida was not as well written as "the realised heroines of Drabble's magnificent books from the 1960s or 1970s." The Seven Sisters (novel) The Seven Sisters is a 1992 novel by British novelist Margaret Drabble. The novel reflects on a mid-life crisis of an estranged Candida, when she moves to a rundown London apartment. The novel largely follows Candida's evasive and sometimes deceptive representation of events, including a epistolary section which is her "computer diary". Reviews of the novel are largely mixed. "Publishers Weekly" called the novel a