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Literary responses | Ann Gomersall | Both the Monthly Review and Critical Review liked what they saw as Eleonora's simple plot, good morality, and Yorkshire humour. The Critical wished the author for the future the success which she so well... |
Literary responses | Ann Gomersall | Again the Critical Review enjoyed AG
's humour, if not her plotting. It supposed her to be influenced by George Lillo
's bourgeois tragedy The London Merchant (having in mind, no doubt, the vindication of... |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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 |
Cultural formation | Hannah Cullwick | To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing... |
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 |
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 | 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 |
Literary responses | Anna Maria Bennett | |
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 |
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 |
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