Miss Edgeworth (see last chapter), but with all those of her Scotch younger one, Miss Ferrier, who wrote _Marriage_ just after _Sense and Sensibility_ appeared, but did not publish it (1818) till after Miss Austen's death, following it with _The Inheritance_ (1824) and _Destiny_ (1831).
Miss Ferrier, who had a strong though rather hard humour and great faculty of pronounced character-drawing, is better at a series of sketches than at a complete novel--only _The Inheritance_ having much central unity.

And there is still eighteenth-century quality rather than nineteenth in her alternations of Smollettian farce-satire and Mackenziefied sentiment.

She is very good to read, but stand a little out of the regular historic succession, as well as out of the ordinary novel classes..