A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Grey, Mrs.
GREY, MRS.,
Is a popular English authoress, in whose writings we find nothing very new or exciting, neither do we discover anything injurious or distasteful to the most fastidious. Her books, with respect to the moral tone, may be safely allowed to "the fair and innocent." The characters are such as, in our experience, we have had the opportunity to see portrayed many hundreds of times. Mrs. Grey dresses them up, however, very cleverly, and presents them to the public suitably. "The Gambler's Wife," one of her early works, has enjoyed a wonderful popularity. In her later works there is much improvement in the style, which is now generally correct. "Aleine" is decidedly the best of her productions, where there is a very successful imitation of Mrs. Marsh; in spirit and feeling some portions of it might fairly challenge competition with "The Two Old Men's Tales." The other works of Mrs. Grey are "The Duke and the Cousin," "The Belle of the Family," "The Little Wife, a Record of Matrimonial Life," "The Manoeuvering Mother," "Sybil Lennard," "The Young Prima Donna," "The Baronet's Daughters," "Hyacinthe, or the Contrast," "Lena Cameron," "The Old Dower House,"Alice Seymour," and "Harry Monk."