Jacqueline S. Bratton

Literary historian J. S. Bratton maintains that the influence of Thomas Day 's tale The History of Sandford and Merton underlies CMT 's educational and didactic works.

The Athenæum's reviewer, George Walter Thornbury , singled out The Shroud for comment. He found the book as a whole a pleasingly-written volume of religious verses, but with no claims to poetic insight. He...

Critic J. S. Bratton calls this book the kind of perversion of well-loved stories which Dickens and others found so reprehensible. She nevertheless maintains that Tucker tells the tales with some zest.Margaret Cutt

J. S. Bratton calls this an extraordinary Gothic tale of an Etonian captured by Italian banditti.

Critic J. S. Bratton finds this novel meticulous in its social detail, and not dictated by any doctrinaire or socially manipulative intention.

From HS 's detailed Log Books, the scholar Jacqueline S. Bratton has managed to reconstruct much of her early years of journalism. Bratton says these typify relations between mid-century magazines and obscure writers.