Henry Fothergill Chorley

Standard Name: Chorley, Henry Fothergill
Used Form: H. F. Chorley
Used Form: Henry F. Chorley

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Literary responses Charlotte Maria Tucker
Grudgingly, Henry Fothergill Chorley in the Athenæum said this book was clearly meant for the gentler sex, and that for readers willing to judge it as a religious nouvellette, the author has not succeeded...
Literary responses Anna Brownell Jameson
A Commonplace Book was reviewed by the Literary Gazette, the Athenæum (by Henry Fothergill Chorley ), The Spectator and Gentleman's Magazine.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press.
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Elizabeth Gaskell pronounced herself in a letter to ABJ delighted with its graceful suggestive wisdom.
Jameson, Anna Brownell. Anna Jameson: Letters and Friendships (1812-1860). Editor Erskine, Beatrice Caroline, T. Fisher Unwin.
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Literary responses Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
In his review in the Athenæum, Henry Fothergill Chorley admitted that the novel wasnot wholly devoid of attraction and that it contained a tolerably lively picture of the court of Louis Quatorze ...
Literary responses Grace Aguilar
The Athenæum's H. F. Chorley lamented that the publication of GA 's early productions was exposing to view the eager, romantic, generous girl making experiments on subjects of different classes and periods,—writing in search...
Literary responses Georgiana Fullerton
Henry Fothergill Chorley , reviewing the novel for the Athenæum, found Grantley Manorhaunted by the intertextual spectre of Jane Austen 's Emma; he also drew parallels with Frances Burney 's Cecilia...
Literary responses Augusta Webster
This first poetic attempt was well received.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 333
H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum thought the poems too closely resembled works by Byron and Wordsworth , but allowed that there were some verses which...
Literary responses Geraldine Jewsbury
The London Literary Gazette reported that the novel displayed considerable intellectual powers, a shrewd observance of character, and a general talent . . . . wanting only some polish to its roughness to raise it...
Literary responses Georgiana Fullerton
In Rose LeblancHenry Fothergill Chorley judged that GF 's power, which was considerable in the early days of her authorship, appears to have been calmed down, and gently washed out of her. He found...
Literary responses Jane Williams
Henry Fothergill Chorley was dismissive of these volumes in reviewing for the Athenæum. He commented that Price's labours and studies might have been valuable had he devoted them to any wider field of tillage...
Literary responses Anne Manning
This book brought AM great success, and she continued throughout her career to identify herself as its author. Henry Fothergill Chorley , reviewing it for the Athenæum two years after publication, said mutedly that it...
Literary responses Emma Jane Worboise
This was reviewed for the Athenæum by Henry Fothergill Chorley .
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Literary responses Julia Kavanagh
H. F. Chorley , the Athenæum reviewer, lauded it as an excellent story for young people, sound in morals and pleasant in incident,—with only one passing apparition of the Deus ex machina to disturb our...
Literary responses Anne Marsh
The Athenæum, which had reported favourably after its peep at the first instalment of Mount Sorel,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
897 (1845):14
gave the task of reviewing the complete work to Henry Fothergill Chorley . He felt...
Literary responses Anne Brontë
Like the first, this second reviewer (probably H. F. Chorley ) found Agnes Grey both less objectionable and less powerful than Wuthering Heights.
Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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Many reviews concentrated wholly or solely on Emily's novel. The...
Literary responses Adelaide Procter
The Spectator greeted this collection effusively as without question the most promising of any first appearance in this century, except that of Keats , and the Saturday Review asserted, presumably with reference to Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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