Her position as a lecturer is unique.

In the selection and treatment of her themes she has no rival.

She touches nothing that she does not enliven and adorn.
Pathos and humour, wit and wisdom, anecdote and incident, the foibles, fancies, freaks, and fashions of the past and present, pen pictures of great men and famous women, illustrious poets and distinguished authors, enrich her writings, as if the ages had laid their wealth of love and learning at her feet, and bidden her help herself.

With a discriminating and exacting taste, she has brought together, in book and lecture, the things that others have overlooked, or never found.

She has been a kind of discoverer of thoughts and things in the by-paths of literature.