William Enfield

Standard Name: Enfield, William

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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.
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Enfield 's Monthly notice was much longer and more appreciative, praising the story, style, characters, and catastrophe (that is...
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
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 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 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.
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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...
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 Phebe Gibbes
The Critical Review thought it mediocre circulating-library fare (though the closing scenes were better than the rest), while William Enfield in the Monthly Review praised this now lost work for its easy and agreeable style...
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
(The reference is to Charles Johnstone 's...
Literary responses Phebe Gibbes
Conservative reviewers were offended. The Critical sneered at Maria (presented, it says, as far too wise for a young lady), who remains single , that she may have more time, we suppose, to write improbable...
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 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 Phebe Gibbes
This novel aroused much interest. One letter was reprinted almost entire, without attribution, on 2 July 1789 in the Aberdeen Magazine as a Picture of the Mode of living at Calcutta. In a letter from...

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