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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | The controversial quality of this book made it popular in the USA as well as in England, and several new editions followed. Thackeray
, however, wrote: We never met with a book more pernicious or... |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Thackeray
(associating Morgan in his comments with Frances Trollope
) said the cultural judgements in this book were based on nothing but tea-table gossip. |
| Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Admirers of Lady Audley included Thackeray
, according to his daughter Anne
. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 9 |
| Literary responses | Hester Mulso Chapone | |
| Literary responses | Emily Eden | EE
herself remarked that the novel had had more success than I require, and considerably more than I expected. Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, pp. 7-20. 16-17 |
| Literary responses | Hélène Gingold | Among five favourable reviews later quoted, the Daily Telegraph offered an apparently enthusiastic plot-summary. The Liverpool Daily Post likened the work to Thackeray
's Henry Esmond, 1852. Gingold, Hélène, and Harry Furniss. Financial Philosophy. Greening. 91 |
| Literary responses | Lucas Malet | Two things about this novel gave offence initially and had a long-term effect on its reputation: its treating the nasty Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | John Blackwood
was in general delighted with the manuscript of Amos Barton. Thackeray
, too, read it and was impressed. Blackwood
's few criticisms (particularly of the ending, which he found comparatively feeble) appalled... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Brontë | Harriet Martineau
, finding the work attributed to herself even by members of her own family, felt that the unknown author must know not only my books but myself very well. . . . With... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Stickney Ellis | Lady Charlotte Guest
, who was first married ten years before this book appeared, received a copy of it as a gift from her husband
and read it at his behest. Obey, Erica. The <span data-tei-ns-tag="">Wunderkammer</span> of Lady Charlotte Guest. Lehigh University Press. 38-9 |
| Literary responses | Catherine Gore | The Westminster Review said this novel was in itself a London Directory, Vargo, Lisa. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lodore</span> and the ’Novel of Society’”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 425-40. 435 Vargo, Lisa. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lodore</span> and the ’Novel of Society’”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 425-40. 435 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Brontë | CB
was stung by Elizabeth Rigby
's attack on the second edition in the Quarterly, which entered the debate over governesses by reviewing the novel alongside Thackeray
's Vanity Fair and the Report of... |
| Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Edward Copeland
calls this Gore's most serious and ambitious novel, one that attempts the same social and historical reach as Thackeray
's Vanity Fair, as well as a self-conscious valediction to the silver fork novel. Copeland, Edward. The Silver Fork Novel. Cambridge University Press. 209 |
| Literary responses | Jane Porter | Fifty years after its publication, Ann Taylor Gilbert
still used The Scottish Chiefs as a measure of a book which had really absorbed her. Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N . 2: 278 |
| Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Thackeray
's review said, with apparent disdain: Supposing that Pall-mall were the world . . . [this] might be a good guide book. . . . the moral is that which very likely the author... |
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