[These notes were made in 1981. I read this in a 2-volume edition which had the confusing spine title "A Woman's Love...", and which had no author's name attached, but it is clearly the same work.:]. [An Author's Love; A Woman's Love:] (Anon). Source-Robarts, Finished May/81. 2 vols., 18--. I read this in tandem with Prosper Merimée's
Lettres à Une Inconnue, to which letters it purports to be a series of answers. The
Lettres are quite interesting, and if fictional (it is by no means clear), cleverly imitate real, repetitious, yet intriguing correspondence. The replies are the incompetent and sometimes lazy work of (obviously) an Englishwoman -- at their worst sentimental or insensitive. Yet despite this, by the time one has ploughed one's way through 2 vols. of each (and the Merimée in French, yet!), one has grown attached to both personalities, dislocated in sensibility though they be. Worth it, if only to keep up my French!
 - Elizabeth Balch)
