William Enfield

Standard Name: Enfield, William

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 Charlotte Smith
The Critical Review, reviewing this book, called CS a sister-queen
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan.
141
of the novel with Frances Burney . William Enfield in the Monthly praised it warmly.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 548
Wollstonecraft , probable author of the...
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
A passage on the slave trade from early in the novel is included...
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
The Critical argued that such personal appeals were...
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
MMS said later that it was well-written for a seventeen-year-old.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton.
123
It received a good...
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
William Enfield in the Monthly found it natural, amusing, and romantic: the work was above contempt even though it had...
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...

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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