I put them to mark the places which call for vengeance upon the vixen writer, or which require animadversion.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
This animadversion was soon conveyed to Amarilly, who instantly and freely forgave the critic.
"Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley"
Belle K. Maniates
Innocence sometimes leads young writers to a freedom of expression from which experienced ones would shrink back in alarm; and the perusal of the old dramatists gives a knowledge of passions, and of sins, known only through their medium, but the skilful developement of which, subjects a female writer, and more particularly a youthful one, to ungenerous animadversion.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner