Vicky's adventures and attitudes [in On Tour] represent what many considered typical of young women of the period. The novel is the author's own story, as Vicarage Family was, and it is told with the same directness and detachment. The poignance is never put into words, but it is felt. The fascinating, often amusing, background makes the book nostalgically appealing to adults who remember the twenties. It should give much pleasure to young people also, for Victoria, under her rebelliousness and brash independence, remains the sensitive, intensely loyal person she was as a child of the vicarage.

Ruth Hill Viguers, "Stories for the Older Boys and Girls: 'On Tour'," in The Horn Book Magazine (copyright © 1965, by Thé Horn Book, Inc., Boston), Vol. XLI, No. 6, December, 1965, p. 638.