Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3 (1804): 470
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Mary Julia Young | The Critical Review (besides alleging indebtedness to Henry Fielding
) judged that both characters and story were well done, but that the ending was wildly improbable. |
| 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 | Penelope Aubin | Popular fiction of PA
's type is a target of parody in Henry Fielding
's Jonathan Wild. McDowell, Paula. “Narrative Authority, Critical Complicity: The Case of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Jonathan Wild</span>”;. Studies in the Novel, Vol. 30 , No. 2, pp. 211-31. 215 |
| Literary responses | Mary Charlton | The New London Review ranked this novel much above mediocrity although over-crowded with incident. It felt that MC
had made an error of judgement in putting into the mouths of her inferior personages what it... |
| 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 | Susan Smythies | The Critical Review later identified this story as an imitation of Henry Fielding
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 7 (1759): 79 |
| Literary responses | Susan Smythies | The Critical Review noted that SS
was imitating Richardson
in this novel (as she had imitated Fielding
in her last). In The Brothers it found all the machinery of a modern novel, without the overall... |
| Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | In the Monthly Review, Ralph Griffiths
passed a judgement which was inflected against Betsy Thoughtless by issues of gender. He guessed that the author was female because of the novel's attention to matters of... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Lennox | CL
's The Female Quixote was crucially reviewed by Henry Fielding
in his Covent Garden Journal. Fielding, Henry. The Covent-Garden Journal. Editor Jensen, Gerard Edward, Vol. 2 vols. , Russell and Russell. 2: 279-82 |
| Literary responses | Jane Collier | The book's authorship is generally accepted, although Jayne Elizabeth Lewis
has written that JC
produced it evidently with some assistance from Fielding
. Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth. “Clarissa’s Cruelty: Modern Fables of Moral Authority in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The History of a Young Lady</span>”;. Clarissa and Her Readers: New Essays for the Clarissa Project, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, pp. 45-67. 64n14 |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Bennett | Mary Russell Mitford
read the Beggar Girl with delight as a schoolgirl in Chelsea, liking it not only for the character and the liveliness, but for the abundant story—incident toppling after incident; all sufficiently natural... |
| Literary responses | Teresia Constantia Phillips | The Thais of the title was an ancient courtesan. Historian Kathleen Wilson
says that in JamaicaTCP
acquired the nickname of The Black Widow in allusion to her many marriages and her supposedly destructive effect... |
| Literary responses | Jane West | The Critical Review was enthusiastic about A Gossip's Story, recommending it as an antidote to the pernicious maxims of most modern sentimental novels. The reviewer said that West's frequent touches of delicate humour came... |
| Literary Setting | Sarah Fielding | The form is epistolary: not an exchange of letters but a single, retrospective letter in which the now older Ophelia looks back. The heroine, brought up in isolation in Wales by an aunt who has... |
| Occupation | Charlotte Charke | CC
, at Henry Fielding
's Haymarket Theatre
, appeared in male roles: as Macheath (John Gay
), Falstaff (Shakespeare
), George Barnwell (George Lillo
), and Lothario (Nicholas Rowe
). The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 3: 402ff |
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