a child's accidental death, American author Edgar Allan Poe wrote: "A remarkable work, and one which I find much difficulty in admitting to be the composition of a woman. Not that many good and glorious things have not been the composition of women – but, because, here, the severe precision of style, the thoroughness, and the luminousness, are points never observable, in even the most admirable of their writings." Like most critics, Fraser's Magazine responded approvingly in 1844 to Fullerton's first effort: "To say of Ellen Middleton that it evinces extraordinary talent in the writer, would be to make use of language which is quite inappropriate to the occasion. It is not talent, but power – marvelous power over the deeper feelings of the human heart, which these burning pages set forth." Responding in October 1847 to Fullerton's second novel Grantley Manor, about a Protestant husband and Catholic wife unable to live together openly due to his father's prejudice against that religion, the reviewer for The New Monthly Belle Assemblée castigated her for her rejection of Anglicanism in favor of "Romish glories," commenting, "It is all very well, Lady Georgiana Fullerton, to expel the sin of bigotry, and the falsehood of those rampant Calvinists, who teach children that the Pope is the devil without his horns. We know there are many excellent Christians in that other faith, though it be full of pitfalls...but we do not see either profit or pleasure in the task of illuminating with the pictures of your genius the dull old missal which has been forgotten in England since the glorious Reformation." References Bibliography Brockhaus Enzyklopädie 14. edition (German) 1902 [IT] Lady Georgiana Fullerton, una scrittrice dall'animo buono [IT] Georgiana Fullerton, Rose Leblanc, traduzione di Riccardo Mainetti, flower-ed 2019 External links Works by Georgiana Fullerton at HathiTrust Works by Georgiana Fullerton at Google Books 1812 births 1885 deaths 19th-century English novelists 19th-century English women writers Converts to Roman Catholicism Daughters of British earls English religious writers English Roman Catholics English women novelists English women poets Leveson-Gower family Roman Catholic writers Founders of English schools and colleges Victorian novelists Victorian poets Victorian women writers Women religious writers