Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen.
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William Enfield
Standard Name: Enfield, William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
| Cultural formation | Hannah Cullwick | To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing... |
| Education | Harriette Wilson | HW
's story of her education is one of tyranny and resistance. Her worst beating from her father was incurred for obstinacy. Her elder sister Jane (called Diana in her memoirs) was supposed to teach... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The literary society of ALB
's time was, as biographer Betsy Rodgers notes, small and intimate. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Wollstonecraft | The full title is The Female Reader: or, Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Best Writers, and Disposed under Proper Heads; for the Improvement of Young Women. MW
said she had... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | William Enfield
quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy
. Her volume... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | William Enfield
, writing in the Monthly Review, found the narrative clumsily handled here, with the subplot hanging like a dead weight on the main story, and the characters, sentiments, and language alike unremarkable. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 615 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Again the Analytical reviewer may have been Wollstonecraft
, and if so she was better pleased than before: another novel, written with her usual flow of language and happy discrimination of manners. . .... |
| Literary responses | Isabella Kelly | The Critical made a basic misjudgement of The Abbey of St. Asaph (seemingly paying more attention to title than to content): it listed all the appurtenances of the Radcliffe
an novel, with which it said... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Some reviewers (who saw the novel as domestic rather than political) were not enthusiastic; the Critical claimed in a lengthy notice to be disappointed in almost every respect with this performance, and deplored the example... |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Bennett | |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Mackenzie | William Enfield
in the Monthly Review deplored the injudicious rendering of the simple Bible story into meretricious ornaments of redundant metaphors and prosaic rhythmus [sic]. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 819 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Again the Critical Review was lukewarm, while Enfield
in the Monthly praised the plot, characters, and CS
's digressive reflections. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 626-7 |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Bennett | Enfield
in the Monthly found the novel excessive in various ways: in characters, incidents, length, and tolerance of juvenile indiscretions. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 375 |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Mackenzie | The Critical felt that this novel's power of raising feelings is but feeble, though at least such feelings would be on the side of virtue. William Enfield
in the Monthly was much more positive... |
Timeline
1774: William Enfield first published his often-reprinted...
Writing climate item
1774
William Enfield
first published his often-reprinted pedagogicanthologyThe Speaker.
Although this is the earliest edition recorded in the English Short Title Catalogue, it calls itself a new edition.
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