 Other reviewers include Thomas Babington Macauley who considered Austen to be a "Prose Shakespeare", and Margaret Oliphant who stated in "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine" in March that she prefers Emma to Austen's other works and that it is "the work of her mature mind".Although Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is the most popular of her novels, critics such as Robert McCrum suggest that "Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility" and John Mullan has argued that "Emma" was a revolutionary novel which changed the shape of what is possible in fiction" because "The novel bent narration through the distorting lens of its protagonist’s mind".The British critic Robert Irvine wrote that unlike Austen's previous novels, the town of Highbury in Surrey emerges as a character in its own right.