Sentence:  She boasts to Bentley that the Prince of Wales admires her books for the “fearless courage” of her opinions. “He said, ‘There is no <WSD>namby-pamby</WSD> nonsense about you – you write with a man's pen, and I should think you would fight your enemies like a man!' These words delighted me, for to be ‘<WSD>namby-pamby</WSD>' would be a "horror" to me,” she writes. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.