The contribution of Jessie Fauset to American fiction can not be gainsaid. In her novels she shows that … there are respectable, middle-class colored people whose lives are twisted and distorted because of race prejudice…. Miss Fauset's description of the lives and difficulties of Philadelphia's colored elite is one of the major achievements of American Negro fiction. (pp. 138-39)

Hugh M. Gloster, "Color and Caste among the Bourgeoisie," in his Negro Voices in American Fiction (copyright, 1948, by The University of North Carolina Press; copyright renewed © by Hugh M. Gloster), The University of North Carolina Press, 1948 (and reprinted by Russell & Russell, Inc., 1965), pp. 131-45.∗