| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Hannah More | Next year saw a rich crop of reviews. Sydney Smith
in the Edinburgh Review, while praising HM
's style and her skill at manipulating her readers, damned the novel as over-moralized, strained and unnatural... |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Appreciation of FH
was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott
and Byron
, in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge
in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray
, her own publisher)... |
| Literary responses | Anna Jane Vardill | In September 1819 the European Magazine carried a poem in praise of AJV
, in which various Muses compete for possession of her. Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol. 2nd series 28 , pp. 57-88. 65-6 |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | This splendidly excessive tale was elaborately summarised by the Critical Review. It had the nerve to complain at the end that Owenson ought to write in a more simple and natural manner, Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3d ser. 23 (1811): 195 |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Norma Clarke
sees in this late work some of FH
's strongest poetry and a resolution of the conflicts and inhibitions of her earlier work: Deeply religious, personal, and direct, they reaffirm the centrality of... |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | The Athenæum compared this novel favourably to the work of Jane Austen
, saying that HM
outstripped her predecessor in creating characters of a higher order of mental force and spiritual attainment, and offering to... |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | De Staël
is said to have had France read to her on her deathbed, with approbation. Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 149 |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | This first poetic attempt was well received. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 333 |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Croker
, who again reviewed for the Quarterly, was obviously one of the race of intolerant critics Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 25 (1821): 532 |
| Literary responses | Martha Fowke | Critic Jerome McGann
enjoys this poem's lovely antitheses, playful surprises, and delicate eroticism,as well as its subtle and significant revision of the critical ideas of Alexander Pope
. McGann, Jerome. The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style. Clarendon. 44 |
| Literary responses | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Edgar Allan Poe
, reviewing this book for the Southern Literary Messenger, thought that LHS
did too much borrowing: from Hannah More
, William Cowper
, William Wordsworth
, and Byron
. Critic Emily Stipes Watts |
| Literary responses | Florence Dixie | This book was widely reviewed in provincial and even American as well as London papers. The Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard called it a real, living, human production, and one which must ever be... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Ham | EH
writes without overall construction, jumping from one topic and one anecdote to another. By this means, however, she captures both the inconsequential flavour of a life lived without overall plan and at the whim... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Marie Corelli | Ziska is openly critical of the writings of Zola
, while praising those of Lord Byron
. It also condemns the hypocrisy and destruction of Western imperialism at the fin de siècle: We take possession... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Dixie | The poem describes the pilgrimage abroad in which the child-author had followed in the footsteps of her dead mountaineer brother. Dixie, Florence. Waifs and Strays. Griffith, Farran, Okeden and Welsh. 9 |
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