"I finished "The Heroine" last night and was very much amused by it. It diverted me exceedingly. I have torn through the third volume; I do not think it falls off. It is a delightful burlesque..." - Jane Austen

""Everybody" has read "The Heroine"]. There is no one so superlatively unhappy as not to have done this thing. But if such there be - if by any possibility such person should exist, we have only a few words to say to him. Go, silly man, and purchase forthwith '"The Heroine: or Adventures of Cherubina."' There are few books written with more tact, spirit, naivete, or grace, ...