Debenham, Helen. “’Almost always two sides to a question’: the novels of Jessie Fothergill”. Popular Victorian Women Writers, edited by Kay Boardman and Shirley Jones, Manchester University Press, pp. 66-89.
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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 | Fanny Fern | Henry Fothergill Chorley
(who wrote reviews of both the first and second editions of Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio, identifying FF
as the sister of N. P. Willis in the first and apparently forgetting... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Jessie Fothergill | Man of letters Henry Fothergill Chorley
was apparently connected to the family through JF
's father's paternal grandmother. |
| 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 | 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... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Gaskell | While researching her biography of Charlotte Brontë
, EG
was warned by Henry Chorley
that unpublished letters were protected by copyright, and that she should seek permission from the executors. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 403 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | The Athenæum's Henry Fothergill Chorley
said that we have met with few pictures of life among the working classes at once so forcible and so fair as Mary Barton. Easson, Angus, editor. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. Routledge. 62 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | Reviews of Cranford were positive, focusing on its charm and apparent simplicity. In the Athenæum, Henry Fothergill Chorley
commended its touches of love and kindness, of simple self-sacrifice and of true womanly tenderness. Easson, Angus, editor. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. Routledge. 194 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | Some reviews applauded the courage of Ruth and its author; others decried the subject-matter and language. Henry Fothergill Chorley
's Athenæum review was mixed: he admired some scenes for their honesty and naturalness, but was... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | Most reviews of North and South were positive, athough some criticized EG
for what they saw as inaccuracies in her portrayal of northern industrial life. Chorley
in the Athenæum called this one of the best... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Gatty | A short notice by H. F. Chorley
in the Athenæum was quite dismissive: This is hardly a book for young persons. Mrs. Gatty has always some meaning which she wishes to convey, but her style... |
| Textual Production | Felicia Hemans | The year after FH
died, Rose Lawrence
, an old friend, published The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems, And Recollections of Mrs. Hemans, and H. F. Chorley
published Memorials of... |
| Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | FH
was by this time a major literary attraction. Rose Lawrence
describes visiters [sic] and strangers, with letters of introduction,—sketchers and pencillers. Lawrence, Rose. The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems. G. and J. Robinson, etc. and John Murray. 342 |
| Textual Production | Felicia Hemans | FH
also published in many of the gift books or literary annuals that became popular from the later 1820s: the Amulet, the Book of Beauty, Christmas Box, the English Annual, the... |
| Textual Production | Felicia Hemans | Chorley (who included extracts from Hemans's letters) represents her as home-loving, but also as humorous and even mischievous: she could talk delicious nonsense, and well as inspired sense, and the utilitarian and the serious, who... |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Chorley
also wrote the note on FH
in The Authors of England: A Series of Medallion Portraits, 1838, claiming for her a place of honour Chorley, Henry Fothergill, and Achille Collas. The Authors of England. Charles Tilt. 1 |
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