William Enfield

Standard Name: Enfield, William

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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,...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB collected and edited an anthology entitled The Female Speaker: she acknowledged the example of the popular The Speaker, edited by her friend William Enfield (which dated from 1774 and had quoted her...
Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
The literary society of ALB 's time was, as biographer Betsy Rodgers notes, small and intimate.
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen.
80
Writers all knew each other and kept in touch; those who did not live in London visited frequently...
Anthologization Anna Letitia Barbauld
For this her great support and encouragement was her brother (as he, rather than her husband , continued to be for her later publications). After he left home to pursue his studies, she sent him...
Textual Features Anna Letitia Barbauld
ALB 's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body.
Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications.
49-50
She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...
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 Anna Letitia Barbauld
This work was controversial. William Enfield in the Monthly Review praised it and endorsed its opinions.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
162-3
Mary Wollstonecraft quoted from Barbauld's Thoughts on the Devotional Taste in her own preface to The Female Reader...
Textual Features Anna Letitia Barbauld
This issue was a continuing interest of Barbauld's. She had contributed five hymns, anonymously, to William Enfield 's Hymns for Public Worship (published at Warrington in 1772),
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
107n30
and had made manuscript notes in the...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
In summer 1789 she wrote a poem of complex feeling, An Epistle to Dr Enfield, which she said he was to throw into the Mersey on a farewell visit to Warrington. It too...
Literary responses Anna Maria Bennett
William Enfield in the Monthly Review thought this book an inferior imitation of Burney 's Cecilia, but added a little faint praise. The Critical, with depressing predictability, censured AMB 's intricate plot and...
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
The Critical judged the story to be interesting though improbable, and sometimes ungrammatical...
Literary responses Anne Burke
The Critical Review, though it found the story very confused, nevertheless thought this novel had considerable merit, and found the style easy and correct.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 666
William Enfield in the Monthly agreed that it...
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 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 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...

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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