Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
(October 1794): 99
William Enfield
Standard Name: Enfield, William
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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| 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 | 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 | 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 | Sarah Pearson | The Critical Review reported that this book was written upon the same plan with the Adventures of a Guinea, which the writer has ingeniously imitated. |
| Literary responses | Anne Plumptre | Antoinette was well reviewed. The Critical hailed a novel which neither endangered its readers' morals nor bored them with constant moralising. It dropped hints about the author's identity which amounted to puffing, saying it believed... |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Porter | The Critical Review welcomed the first volume, but said this young genius was worthy of, or needed, further cultivation. When volume two rapidly followed, the journal felt that it was premature. It complained that the... |
| Literary responses | Clara Reeve | The Critical Review (which assumed the author to be male) defined his intention as to interest the imagination . . . by going into the marvellous, without transgressing the bounds of credibility. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 44 (1777): 154 |
| Literary responses | Mary Robinson | MR
's daughter says the first edition sold out in a single day. Five more impressions followed. Reviewers were less keen. Though William Enfield
in the Monthly Review praised the novel's richness of language and... |
| Literary responses | Regina Maria Roche | The Critical Review thought that this novel, if possibly amusing, was definitely forgettable. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 596-7 |
| Literary responses | Mary Martha Sherwood | Sherwood's father found The Traditions, correctly she said, grounded on high and chivalrous feeling, and ignorance of life. Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton. 122 Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton. 123 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | The Critical Review, reviewing this book, called CS
a sister-queen Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 141 Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 548 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Charlotte Smith | Reviewers were more approving than previously of CS
's politics, but began to complain of her accusatory fictionalising of the financial details of her own situation. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 226 |
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