"[5] Another critic praised it as "not inferior in wit and humour to Tristram Shandy, and in point of plot and interest infinitely beyond Don Quixote.
"[6] Edgar Allan Poe wrote in 1835: "There are few books written with more tact, spirit, naiveté, or grace... and none more fairly entitled to rank among the classics of English literature than the Heroine of Eaton Stannard Barrett.
He appears to have died of tuberculosis in 1820, and yet he is mentioned as an author in a publication called The American Farmer, printed in Baltimore and dated 1823.
The author of a memorial commented: "There are few gentlemen whose private worth gained more esteem, or whose manners possessed more attractions.
[11] Manuscript poetry of Eaton Stannard Barrett (c.1809) is held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.