![]() ![]() Arguing that Miss Ravenel’s Conversion sufficed when compared to the “numerous rivals for popular favor” at the time of its publishing, James overall derided it as a “poor novel with a deal of good in it.” 2 In panning the novel, however, James found one unexpected virtue. ![]() 1 Yet, in an unsigned review for the Nation, James disagreed. Howells celebrated De Forest for his depiction of a romance plot between virtuous Northerners and reformed Southerners that could represent the prospects of North-South reconciliation. Harper’s Monthly, for example, declared it to be the “best American novel published for many a year” and W. His distaste made him something of an outlier: after the novel’s publication, critics generally praised De Forest’s innovation in tackling a fraught period in the nation’s history. ![]() Henry James didn’t much like John William De Forest’s 1868 Civil War novel Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty. ![]()
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