SOURCE: Review of Zofloya; or the Moor. General Review of British and Foreign Literature 1 (June 1806): 590-93.

In the following review, contemporaneous with the publication of Zofloya, the reviewer asserts that the novel does not rank as a moral work and, in general, contains little artistic merit.

Zofloya; or, the Moor: a Romance of the Fifteenth Century, in 3 Vols. by Charlotte Dacre, better known as Rosa Matilda; Author of the Nun of St. Omer's, Hours of Solitude, &c. 12mo. London. Longman and Co. 1806. Price 12s.

This novel abounds with characters of mischief and vice, drawn with little preparation, and employed in adventures which constitute a plot not remarkable for its art nor striking in its management, but so closely imitated from Lewis's Monk, as to force the reader upon a comparison between the two works incomparably to the prejudice of the one before us;—this novel is, notwithstanding, sufficiently...