Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
44 (1777): 154
William Enfield
Standard Name: Enfield, William
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| 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. |
| 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 | 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 | 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. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. (October 1794): 99 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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 | Margaret Holford | This novel was somewhat condescendingly noticed in the Critical Review as artless, an interesting little story, related in a pleasing manner, though vulnerable to various criticisms. William Enfield
in the Monthly expressed indulgence towards... |
| 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 | Susannah Gunning | SG
's new notoriety helped her popularity as a writer. The Gentleman's Magazine found Anecdotes to be the production of an elegant and accomplished mind, though it complained of printer's errors and errors in French... |
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