Henry Fothergill Chorley

Athenæum reviewer H. F. Chorley felt that the author was now raving like a pagan Pythoness—the female oracle whose pronouncements were not expected to be comprehensible: There is a positive untruth to the very...

Henry Chorley , the reviewer on this occasion for the Athenæum, thought the stories ghastly in the extreme, admirably calculated to keep readers awake at night. Yet he felt the gathering of this terrible...

She had not been in her position long, though, when Evans made her two successive disturbing visits. On the first he told her that her journal's circulation figures were disappointing, and that she would be...

JL 's last number of The Ladies' Companion: At Home and Abroad appeared: the final issue before the publishers, Bradbury and Evans , forcibly replaced her as editor against her will, with Henry F. Chorley .

There was a precedent for this kind of faux-historical document (which the Athenæum reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley , at once picked up on): Hannah Mary Rathbone 's The Diary of Lady Willoughby, 1844.

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...

The Athenæum, which had reported favourably after its peep at the first instalment of Mount Sorel, gave the task of reviewing the complete work to Henry Fothergill Chorley . He felt...

Henry Fothergill Chorley in the Athenæum noted some reservations about the character of Lisa, and about the caricaturing of Mrs Danby, the shrewish miserly mother-in-law. But he confessed to being bewitched by a literary power...

Like most of her output around this time, it was extremely well reviewed for the Athenæum by Henry Fothergill Chorley , and other journals were just as gratifying.

Henry Fothergill Chorley in the Athenæum, though as appreciative as ever of AM 's scene-setting and characterization, of her well-known power, and . . . her well-known style, had several grumbles. He complained that...

The couple are married; they have two sons, one of whom further develops the reader's involvement with Randal Langford by his steady devotion to his father. Nevertheless, the working out of the denouement was found...

Chorley 's Athenæum review is remarkable for two things: for the vehemence with which he praised the novel's plotting and the climactic scene of preparations for the wedding (which he quoted at length, only regretting...

H. F. Chorley , reviewing for the Athenæum, praised the author's descriptive picturesquenessand noted that her characters are drawn with more force than often belongs to heroes and villains imagined by the Women...

In his review in the Athenæum, H. F. Chorley detected the strong influence of Lady Morgan on the characters and action of this novel.He commented also on the novel's use...

MRM undertook for Henry Chorley to provide a series of Readings of Poetry, Old and New: selected extracts with her commentary.