The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Religious Novel

"The Religious Novel." New-York Saturday Press. (1860-12-11).
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
review
Abstract

Religious novels are criticized as banal and didactic. A new novel by Miss Yonge in that category is deemed better than the majority of its genre, but still lacking.