Miss West has not lost her eye for the beauties of nature nor her talent for describing them. In ["The Witch Diggers"] all the seasons are alive. Nor is she any the less at ease in domestic atmosphere, which she so pleasantly created in "The Friendly Persuasion."… But in the wide sweep of a full-length novel Miss West does not have the grace and ease that she has exhibited in her short stories; and in the darker regions of the soul she is not so much at home as she is where there is light. Indiana … needs a little Faulknerian dissonance, but Miss West is not equipped to strike that note. (p. 42)

William E. Wilson, "Indiana Tragedy," in The Saturday Review of Literature (copyright © 1951 by Saturday Review; all rights reserved; reprinted by permission), Vol. XXXIV. No. 5, February 3, 1951, pp. 17, 42.