Critical Reception
A Publisher's Weekly review of Charity Girl describes it as "full of dashing period slang, and it trifles with the affairs of several maids and men with such style and gentle irony that readers of good 'ton,' as Miss Heyer herself might put it, will find reading it a very 'comfortable cose' indeed." Beyond that, Charity Girl has not received a lot of serious critical attention, but it does continue to garner a steady trickle of readers, especially fans of the regency genre. Charity Girl has seventeen reviews, most of them positive, at Google Books. Good Reads posts forty-eight reviews of Charity Girl with an average 3.39 rating out of five. At Library Thing, the novel has a 3.55 out of four rating.
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