"... one feels compelled to admit the justice of Paul Bourget's classification when he places Mrs. Craven in the pious school of novelists. ... From the material point of view her efforts were happily very successful, some of her stories having had an extensive sale. Yet it would be a daring speculation to assert either that she created her reading public or robbed the realistic writers of theirs. Most probably she wrote for a public which already existed—the pious Catholic world in France—and in so doing has laid herself open to the stigma of having "written books for girls." The best which can be said of Mrs. Craven's novels is, that they are conventional romances written by a clever woman."
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Pauline Marie Armande Craven
(née Ferron de La Ferronays, 12 April 1808 – 1 April 1891) was a French writer, devout Catholic, and member of the social elites in Paris, London, and Naples. The ' awarded a prize for her 1866 book Récit d'une sœur, souvenirs de famille.
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