Marie Belloc Lowndes 
Heart of Penelope 

"A subtle and powerful analysis of character. It is more like Jane Austen than Miss Braddon. It is exceedingly well written. The characters are admirably drawn, and the story has one great feature to recommend it – the reader is utterly unable to imagine how it is going to end until he is within a chapter or two of the end. Most of the characters, both male and female, seem to be studies from life, and display a maturity seldom found in a first novel." -The Review of Reviews-