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Review of The Moral Ideal (1889) 'It is a treat to come to such a very full and suggestive volume. ... What strikes us in every chapter is Miss Wedgwood's thoroughness. She knows Alfred Ludwig's Rig Veda ... her Burnouf ... She is equally at home in F. Lassalle's Heracleitos, in Plutarch, in Philo, and in St Augustine. She combats Dr Jowett ... But there is much more in this volume than wide and deep reading; there is a rare breadth of thought ... Her book is not one to be devoured at a sitting, but to be read and re-read and digested as the fruit of so many year's thought deserves to be'.

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Review of Moral Ideal second edition, Ethics 1908: 'This is an able and delightful book. ... Its range is so wide .... and its peculiar merit lies in the many fresh and stimulating apercus with which it is filled. ... It ends with an inspiring working out of the antithesis between the ought and the is' (F. Melian Stawell).

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Manchester Guardian obituary 1913: 'The great book "The Moral Ideal" remains the most enduring achievement of one of the most gifted women of her generation. ... Few books of our time are more striking examples of the power which compels vast masses of detail to become expressive and eloquent. ... Her brilliant, incisive, but weighty thought played freely over a vast number of subjects - history, literature old and new, religion, philosophy ...'

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C. L. Herford recollections, Spectator 1914: On The Moral Ideal: 'Her interpretations of [history's] great salient epochs are of enduring value. They are contributions to the history of ethics; contributions ... of an historian for whom the past was still alive, in ... that ... the succession of the "Moral Ideals" slowly evolved ... as moral material which must be taken up into the completed Moral Ideal of the future'.​

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