Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley.
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Dedications | Mary Russell Mitford | She dedicated this work to Henry Chorley
, without whose persuasion, she said, she would not have written it. Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley. prelims Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 197 |
Employer | Anna Mary Howitt | AMH
was already writing and drawing as a professional when Henry Chorley
, editor of the Ladies' Companion, commissioned her to go to Oberammergau and report on the passion play. On her return to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jessie Fothergill | Man of letters Henry Fothergill Chorley
was apparently connected to the family through JF
's father's paternal grandmother. Debenham, Helen. “’Almost always two sides to a question’: the novels of Jessie Fothergill”. Popular Victorian Women Writers, edited by Kay Boardman and Shirley Jones, Manchester University Press, pp. 66-89. 69 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Pardoe | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests that JP
hoped for a proposal of marriage from writer and reviewer Henry Fothergill Chorley
, which he never made. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Ogilvy | Over the years EO
developed friendships many people, a number of whom were involved with the community surrounding the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. Among these friends were Sir David Brewster
, Henry Chorley
,... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Ann Browne | MAB
had already met L. E. L.
and Mary Russell Mitford
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | While in London, ER
renewed old friendships and established new. She socialized with Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
, John Wilson Croker
, Henry Chorley
, Lord Lansdowne
, and Anna Jameson
(with whom she corresponded)... |
Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | CC
's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright
was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting... |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | FH
was by this time a major literary attraction. Rose Lawrence
describes visiters [sic] and strangers, with letters of introduction,—sketchers and pencillers. Lawrence, Rose. The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems. G. and J. Robinson, etc. and John Murray. 342 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Manning | There was a precedent for this kind of faux-historical document (which the Athenæum reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley
, at once picked up on): Hannah Mary Rathbone
's The Diary of Lady Willoughby, 1844. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1215 (1851): 166 |
Literary responses | Catherine Hubback | H.F. Chorley
acidly commented in a comic review of the novel for the Athenæum: We are not pious enough to relish the tone of argument,—we are not irreligious enough to find the strained tones... |
Literary responses | Grace Aguilar | This work met with good reception and went through thirty-six editions or reprints by 1881. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Literary responses | Charlotte Maria Tucker | Grudgingly, Henry Fothergill Chorley
in the Athenæum said this book was clearly meant for the gentler sex, and that for readers willing to judge it as a religious nouvellette, the author has not succeeded... |
Literary responses | Anna Brownell Jameson | A Commonplace Book was reviewed by the Literary Gazette, the Athenæum (by Henry Fothergill Chorley
), The Spectator and Gentleman's Magazine. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press. 47 Jameson, Anna Brownell. Anna Jameson: Letters and Friendships (1812-1860). Editor Erskine, Beatrice Caroline, T. Fisher Unwin. 295 |
Literary responses | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | In his review in the Athenæum, Henry Fothergill Chorley
admitted that the novel wasnot wholly devoid of attraction and that it contained a tolerably lively picture of the court of Louis Quatorze
... |