II — The Sequel to Home Influence
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The — Mother’s Recompense
A Sequel To
“Home Influence, a Tale for Mothers and Daughters.”
By GRACE AGUILAR.
“Grace Aguilar belonged to the school of which Maria Edgeworth was the foundress. The design of the book is carried out forcibly and constantly. ‘The Home Influences’ exercised in earlier years being shown in active germination.”
—Atlas.
“The writings of Grace Aguilar have a charm inseparable from productions in which feeling is combined with intellect; they go directly to the heart. ‘Home Influence,’ the deservedly popular story to which this is a Sequel, admirably teaches the lesson implied in its name. In the present tale we have the same freshness, earnestness, and zeal—the same spirit of devotion, and love of virtue—the same enthusiasm and sincere religion which characterised that earlier work. We behold the mother now blessed in the love of good and affectionate offspring, who, parents themselves, are, after her example, training their children in the way of rectitude and piety.”
—Morning Chronicle.
“This beautiful story was completed when the authoress was little above the age of nineteen, yet it has the sober sense of middle age. There is no age nor sex that will not profit by its perusal, and it will afford as much pleasure as profit to the reader.”
—Critic.
“The same kindly spirit, the same warm charity and fervour of devotion which breathes in every line of that admirable book, ‘Home Influence,’ will be found adorning and inspiring ‘The Mother’s Recompense.’”
—Morning Advertiser.
“The good which she (Grace Aguilar) has effected is acknowledged on all hands, and it cannot be doubted but that the appearance of this volume will increase the usefulness of one who may yet be said to be still speaking to the heart and to the affections of human nature.”
—Bell’s Messenger.
“It will be found an interesting supplement, not only to the book to which it specially relates, but to all the writer’s other works.”
—Gentleman’s Magazine.
“‘The Mother’s Recompense’ forms a fitting close to its predecessor, ‘Home Influence.’ The results of maternal care are fully developed, its rich rewards are set forth, and its lesson and its moral are powerfully enforced.”
—Morning Post.
“We heartily commend this volume; a better or more useful present to a youthful friend or a young wife could not well be selected.”
—Herts County Press.
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GRACE AGUILAR’S WORKS