1 Yet, in an unsigned review for the Nation, James disagreed. Howells celebrated De Forest for his depiction of a romance plot between virtuous Northerners and reformed Southerners that could represent the prospects of North-South reconciliation. Harper’s Monthly, for example, declared it to be the “best American novel published for many a year” and W. His distaste made him something of an outlier: after the novel’s publication, critics generally praised De Forest’s innovation in tackling a fraught period in the nation’s history. Henry James didn’t much like John William De Forest’s 1868 Civil War novel Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty.
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