Her acute critic "Daddy" Crisp lamented that we had not had a series of recorders of successive _tons_ [fashions] like Fanny.

But she was much more than a mere fashion-monger: and what has lasted best in her was not mere fashion.

She could see and record life and nature: and she did so.

Still, fashion had a good deal to do with it: and when her access to fashion and society ceased, the goodness of her work ceased likewise.
Even this gift, and this even in _Evelina_ and the better parts of _Cecilia_, she had not always with her.

The sentimental parts of _Evelina_--the correspondence with Mr.Villars, the courtship with Lord Orville, and others--are very weak: and it cannot be said that Evelina herself, though she is a pleasant girl enough, gives the lie to Mr.
Pope's libel about women.