Despite his personal issues with Fuller, the typically harsh literary critic Edgar Allan Poe wrote of the work as "a book which few women in the country could have written, and no woman in the country would have published, with the exception of Miss Fuller", noting its "independence" and "unmitigated radicalism".
Trots sina personliga problem med Fuller skrev den typiskt stränga litteraturkritikern Edgar Allan Poe om boken som "en bok som få kvinnor i landet kunde ha skrivit, och ingen kvinna i landet skulle ha publicerat, med undantag för Miss Fuller", och noterade dess "oberoende" och "outspädda radikalism".