Amy Herbert & Bibliographie critique

Amy Herbert d'Elizabeth M. Sewell eut un succès public immédiat lors de sa parution. On nota le style simple et naturel de cet agréable récit des petites aventures et mésaventures d'une petite fille de onze ans de 1844 dans son milieu familial. Ainsi le Columbian lady's and gentleman's magazine: "Very simple—nothing more than the two or three years life of a little girl. The feelings of the readers are continually kept awake, active, interested, and very often they are touched so deeply as to bring tears into the eyes and that choking sensation into the throat which is the highest tribute to genuine pathos." Le Spectator de 1847 ajoutera: "An elegant style, a feminine delicacy and quickness of perception".