A man must not write a novel about any other point of love.

Of course there are plenty of authors who have broken this rule but the rule still exists.

A man may represent a contest between two women, one good and one bad, but if the bad woman is allowed to conquer in the story, the public will growl.

This English fashion has existed since the eighteenth century.
since the time of Richardson, and is likely to last for generations to come.
Now this is not the rule at all which governs making of novels in France.
French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

This does not mean that the English are morally a better people than the French or other Southern races.