[5] At the annual Conference of the National Council of Women of Great Britain, held at Croydon, in October, 1897, Rye read a paper on "The Early Care and Training of Children under the Poor-law".
The Economic Review (1898) criticized it, saying that Rye naturally laboured under a strong bias arising probably alike from her convictions and her position.
Her conclusions (quoted from Sir Godfrey Lushington), that the transference of pauper schools from the Home Office to the Education Department was necessary in order "to restore the children to society, to improve the standard of teaching, and to prevent the children from feeling a class apart," could be considered untenable, as abundance of proof existed that these three objects were already fully attained under existing circumstances.
[7] A reviewer in The Athenaeum (1883) wrote, "a wild rhapsody which borrows most of its feeble fancies from well-known sources.
The spinning-girl, the poet, the princesses of the hospital, and all the other creatures ... are like the figures of a mad dream, and the illustrations are worthy of them.
[11] Of The Beloved Son (1900), a reviewer in The Speaker (1901) mentions that the best element in the book lay in the names of the chapters.
[12] Haslam first married Francis Rye (1848-1884) on n 15 July 1875, in Niagara, Ontario, Canada.