Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. A Woman’s Memories of World-Known Men. F. V. White.
I: prelims; II: prelims
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | The work contains reminiscences of MCH
's friends and acquaintances. Among them were John Wilson Croker
, the Norton
family, William Wordsworth
, Fanny Trollope
, the younger Alexandre Dumas
, and the daughter
of Caroline Clive
. Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. A Woman’s Memories of World-Known Men. F. V. White. I: prelims; II: prelims |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
Textual Production | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Sydney Owenson
replied to a series of anonymous satires by the young J. W. Croker
on Dublin theatre people, with a spirited pamphlet lampoon bearing her initials. Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 56 |
Textual Production | Frances Reynolds | Most . . . but not all Hill, George Birkbeck, editor. Johnsonian Miscellanies. Clarendon Press. 1: xi |
Textual Features | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | In the society that Morgan depicts, the Irish Catholic gentry are mostly absent, scattered in European exile. The peasantry, dirt-poor but generous-hearted, include Tim O'Leary, schoolmaster of a hedge school, scholar and expert in Irish... |
Reception | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | In Britain these were attacked by John Wilson Croker
in a vitriolic notice in the Quarterly. Dow, Gillian. “Genuine ’Genuine Anecdotes’: an émigré novel in 1790s Britain”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) 35th Annual Conference, Oxford. |
Publishing | Olivia Clarke | |
Literary responses | Maria Edgeworth | The Memoirs were comprehensively rubbished by the reviewers. The Quarterly, in the person of John Wilson Croker
, found them long-winded, pompous, and partisan, and their central figure disagreeable. The charge of irreligion was... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Rigby | Lockhart
praised this article, writing: Mr Croker
pronounces it charming both for the sense and pleasantry. I scarcely think he ever said a word in favour of any other article not his own. Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages. 1: 165 |
Literary responses | Lady Louisa Stuart | A critical and prejudiced review by John Wilson Croker
provoked Lady Louisa's fighting response in her Supplement to the Anecdotes. Rubenstein, Jill. “Women’s Biography as a Family Affair: Lady Louisa Stuart’s ’Biographical Anecdotes’ of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”. Prose Studies, Vol. 9 , No. 1, pp. 3-21. 18-19 |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Political economy was controversial in itself, and the potentially scandalous exposition by a young unmarried female of matters having to do with population control provided grist for the mills of hostile reviewers. HM
recollected hearing... |
Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Critics in general, from first publication onwards, tended to identify Sydney Owenson with her heroine; the name Glorvina stuck to her thenceforward. The Critical Review (whose notice spelled this name wrong throughout) said it could... |
Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | J. W. Croker
's notice in the Quarterly Review (in June 1812, wrongly attributed by some to Southey
) was most offensive of all. He reached for the gendered weapons so often drawn against Mary Wollstonecraft |
Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | This novel, said the Critical, deserves great praise for stepping out of the high way of modern romance. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3d ser. 16 (1809): 282 |
Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Croker
confessed to liking this piece, but insisted that Owenson had not yet heard the last of his dislike of The Wild Irish Girl. Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 75 |