William Enfield

Standard Name: Enfield, William

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Literary responses Margaret Minifie
The Critical belatedly noted: She is now no longer in partnership, but sets up for herself.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
50 (1780): 168
It approved the novel's morally didactic tone, its style, characters, and narrative, but warned that it...
Literary responses Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
William Enfield in the Monthly Review praised the novel only faintly, although he admitted that the story was well told.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 576
Literary responses Mary Charlton
This novel, although it seems not to have been remembered in the course of MC 's later career, received three lengthy reviews in serious periodicals. William Enfield in the Monthly, quoted above, said he...
Literary responses Eliza Parsons
The Critical Review treated this work with respect while placing it firmly in an inferior category: strictly moral and generally pleasing . . . . We wish our circulating libraries were always so well supplied...
Literary responses Lady Mary Walker
Reviewers were impressed. The Critical praised the author's great knowledge of the world and her soundness of judgement, both natural and acquired: Considered as a female writer, (we beg pardon of the ladies for this...
Literary responses Maria Susanna Cooper
The Critical Review welcomed this novel because it was not the work of a mercenary (throwing light on the continued prejudice against writing as a trade or profession), and said it was well calculated to...
Literary responses Eliza Parsons
William Enfield wrote in the Monthly Review that this book must stand or fall by its moral merit. He found the first volume better than the second, and the language natural, but never elegant and...
Literary responses Lady Mary Walker
Again, the two leading journals endorsed LMW 's project. Enfield in the Monthly thought the work well designed to answer its laudable purpose of instruction, and the Critical Review used the book as a peg...
Literary responses Maria Susanna Cooper
The Critical Review announced that MSChas executed her task with taste and judgement.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 237
Enfield 's Monthly notice was much longer and more appreciative, praising the story, style, characters, and catastrophe (that is...
Literary responses Eliza Parsons
The Critical Review found this one romantic but plausible, with well supported characters, virtuous sentiments, and situations extremely interesting to the tenderest feelings of the heart.William Enfield in the Monthly agreed with a good...
Literary responses Lady Mary Walker
This time the Critical Review seems not to have recognised the same hand in this narrative, with several letters interspersed as in LMW 's earlier works. While it approved the characters, the knowledge exhibited, and...
Literary responses Eliza Parsons
The Critical Review sounded somewhat divided in its judgement. It commended this work's general good sense and tendency, and found the incidents, in the first volume at any rate, probable, interesting, and affecting, and interspersed...
Literary responses Jane West
The Critical Review cited West's preface approvingly and noted that she had fulfilled the intentions there set out. William Enfield in the Monthly Review professed himself delighted to see fictional talent successfully employed to efface...
Literary responses Joanna Baillie
Very few copies sold.
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25.
3
The single review, recalled by JB as significant, was by the Rev. William Enfield , who wrote in the Monthly Review of November 1791, that the poems were simple, unexaggerated,...
Literary responses Eliza Fenwick
Secresy had six reviews in 1795; EF wrote much later that they blamed the principles but commended the style & Imagination.
Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press.
71
The Critical Review was put off by the title but then moved to...

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