William Enfield

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...

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...

Enfield in the Monthly found the novel excessive in various ways: in characters, incidents, length, and tolerance of juvenile indiscretions. The Critical judged the story to be interesting though improbable, and sometimes ungrammatical...

ALB 's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body. She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...

This issue was a continuing interest of Barbauld's. She had contributed five hymns, anonymously, to William Enfield 's Hymns for Public Worship (published at Warrington in 1772), and had made manuscript notes in the...

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...

In summer 1789 she wrote a poem of complex feeling, An Epistle to Dr Enfield, which she said he was to throw into the Mersey on a farewell visit to Warrington. It too...