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' ... when ... [Amy Barlow's] brother-in-law caught her sniffing over ... [Ethel Voynich, "The Gadfly" (1897)], he began to weep in [mock] sympathy.'
'What do you think of the "Gadfly"? I wrote what I thought to P. [presumably Sydney Pawling of Heinemann] who rejoined gallantly. But it comes to this, if his point of view is accepted, that having suffered is sufficient excuse for the production of rubbish.[...] I don't remember ever reading a book I disliked so much.'