|Though the series of quaternions which form the major part of
the poems, have separate titles and were written at various
times, they are in fact a single poem, containing sixteen
personified characters, all of them giving their views with
dreary facility and all of them to the Puritan mind, eminently
correct and respectable personalities. The "Four Seasons" won
especial commendations from her most critical readers, but for
all of them there seems to have been a delighted acceptance of
every word this phenomenal woman had thought it good to pen.
Even fifty years ago, a woman's work, whether prose or verse,
which came before the public, was hailed with an enthusiastic
appreciation, it is difficult to-day to comprehend, Mrs. S. C.
Hall emphasizing this in a paragraph on Hannah More, who held
much the relation to old England that Anne Bradstreet did to the
New. "In this age, when female talent is so rife--when, indeed,
it is not too much to say women have fully sustained their right
to equality with men in refe