ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some of the reviews of the works of romantic women writers which were published in the Universal Magazine and Review. The writers whose works were reviewed include Anne Blower, Charlotte Brooke, Charlotte-Elizabeth of Bavaria, Marguerite Daubenton, and Clara Reeve. The review says that Brooke has done more justice to her authors than any translator that can be remembered. Her diction is chaste, though flowery; exact, though elegant; and harmonious, though not straying from the original meaning. The poem of Magnus, though in English, retains its primitive grandeur of sentiment, and has something of that pleasing magnificence which delights, though it impresses horror on the mind of the reader. Reeve's The Exiles; or Memoirs of the Count de Cronstadt is an interesting and well conducted story. The fatal effects of indulging the tender passions, at the expence of reason, and in opposition to every worldly consideration and advantage, are set in a particular striking point of view.
