SOURCE: Review of Simple Tales by Amelia Opie, in Edinburgh Review, Vol. 8, July, 1806, pp. 465-71.

In the following article, the critic favorably reviews Opie's Simple Tales for its ability to present human nature and feelings in an artless but graceful and accurate way.

We owe some apology to Mrs Opie, for omitting at the proper time to take notice of her beautiful story of the Mother and Daughter; the second volume of which is perhaps the most pathetic, and the most natural in its pathos, of any fictitious narrative in the language. In the tales now before us, we find much of the same merits; the same truth and delicacy of sentiment; the same graceful simplicity in the dialogue parts of the work; and the same happy art of presenting ordinary feelings and occurrences in a manner that irresistibly commands our sympathy and affection.

Mrs Opie has no...