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Henry Fothergill Chorley
Standard Name: Chorley, Henry Fothergill
Used Form: H. F. Chorley
Used Form: Henry F. Chorley
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Grace Aguilar | This work met with good reception and went through thirty-six editions or reprints by 1881. |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Anna Eliza Bray | Henry Fothergill Chorley
's review celebrated the book's illustrations, declaring that a more beautiful volume than this is not often issued. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1261 (1851): 1381 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. |
| Reception | Anna Eliza Bray | Henry Fothergill Chorley
's Athenæum review observed that the heaviness of Mrs. Bray's style would not oppress her young as much as her adult readers, adding that some of the legends are quaint and marvellous... |
| 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. 217-9 |
| Travel | Charlotte Brontë | She stayed at the house of handsome, unmarried George Smith
, of Smith, Elder, and Co.
, and his mother. The night before she left, they hosted a dinner for critics, including John Forster
and... |
| Literary responses | Emily Brontë | Initial reviews dwelt on Wuthering Heights as violent, cruel, gloomy, and excessive. It was inexpressibly painful, Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 230 Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 236, 237 |
| Literary responses | Emily Brontë | This bowdlerized version of EB
's novel and her poetry circulated widely and received many reviews. H. F. Chorley
in the Athenæum pronounced the re-publication of the two novels an illustration of English female genius... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Ann Browne | MAB
had already met L. E. L.
and Mary Russell Mitford
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Literary responses | Georgiana Chatterton | Henry Fothergill Chorley
in the Athenæum wrote that this work had come from the pen of an amiable and accomplished lady and that it could only be described as an amazing production. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1879 (1863): 566 |
| Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | CC
's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright
was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting... |
| Literary responses | Camilla Crosland | Lydia was reviewed in the Athenæum by Henry Fothergill Chorley
. While he did not have much praise for the work itself (some passages were amusing, others pathetic), he was generous with his... |
| Literary responses | Camilla Crosland | The Athenæum review did not address the book's literary qualities. Instead, Henry Fothergill Chorley
merely wondered how persons of taste and sense can be drawn into such frenzies. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1552 (1857): 941 |
| Literary responses | Lucie Duff Gordon | The Athenæum's review of Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1862-3 pronounced Lady Duff Gordon's letters to be the most popular portion of this book Athenæum. J. Lection. 1917 (1864): 104 |
| Literary responses | Amelia B. Edwards | Henry Fothergill Chorley
in the Athenæum faulted the book as being something close to a textbook under the guise of entertainment. Young people, he argued, resent such books as engines of oppression. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1788 (1862): 151 |
Timeline
By 29 August 1846: Cecilia Tilley (a daughter of Frances Trollope,...
Women writers item
By 29 August 1846
Cecilia Tilley
(a daughter of Frances Trollope
, who died two years later, at thirty-one, of tuberculosis) published Chollerton: a tale of our times, as by a Lady.
Texts
Mitford, Mary Russell. Letters of Mary Russell Mitford, Second Series. Editor Chorley, Henry Fothergill, R. Bentley and Son, 1872.
Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley, 1836.
Chorley, Henry Fothergill, and Achille Collas. The Authors of England. Charles Tilt, 1838.
Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Thirty Years’ Musical Recollections. Hurst and Blackett, 1862.