John Wilson Croker

In her youth MCH 's family associated with various prominent figures. Living close to John Wilson Croker , she became acquainted with many literary people, including Theodore Hook and the family of Caroline Norton ...

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 .

In Britain these were attacked by John Wilson Croker in a vitriolic notice in the Quarterly.

J. W. Croker in the Quarterly Review faulted the collection for failing to provide a religious basis for its moral judgements. Anna Letitia Barbauld responded with a letter to the Gentleman's Magazine, venting...

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...

She came from the professional class. Her famous namesake, J. W. Croker , was no relation, though his father came from a Devon family.

OC began privately circulating her rhyming-couplet burlesque of J. W. Croker 's attack in the Quarterly on her sister 's book France.

The Memoirsdid not win critical acclaim, though Joanna Baillie and her sister, who had known many of the people depicted in the memoirs, enjoyed them immensely, especially FB 's juvenile letters. Baillie, who...

The Wanderer was disappointingly received, probably because it read like a work of the 1790s—as essentially it was. J. W. Croker wrote objectionably of it in the Quarterly Review as if the book were a...

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

The prose pieces include a dialogue of the dead between the ancient beauty Helen and the modern Madame de Maintenon . Literary historian James Chandler notes that the most substantial piece in the volume is...