When MRM
was in her early twenties (she said years later), a young American was a sort of lover of mine.
qtd. in
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2315 (1872): 297
She later made light of the relationship, of his nationality, and...
Literary responses
Catherine Hutton
The Monthly Review found Dorothy too bold to be acceptable or indeed natural.
Constantine, Mary-Ann. “’The bounds of female reach’ Catherine Hutton’s Fiction and her Tours in Wales”. Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, issue 22, 1 Mar.–31 May 2017.
But a couple of years after its publication, the painter Sir William Elford
recommended The Welsh Mountaineer to his friend Mary Russell Mitford
