Henry Fothergill Chorley

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...

There was a precedent for this kind of faux-historical document (which the Athenæum reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley , at once picked up on): Hannah Mary Rathbone 's The Diary of Lady Willoughby, 1844.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

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 .

This and her next novel received a moderately good press, including a review by H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum. The Times review of Azeth, the Egyptian was particularly gratifying. Overall, however, its reception...

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...

AK undertook a singing tour of France and Germany with family and friends, including Fanny Kemble , Mary Anne Thackeray and Henry Chorley . Liszt joined them in Germany.

AK 's stature as a singer was evaluated shortly after her retirement by Anna Jameson in her Memoirs and Essays, 1846, and twenty years after it by Henry Chorley in his Thirty Years' Musical...

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...

H. F. Chorley reviewed it in the Athenæum, noting that, even though from the earliest announcement of her plan we were convinced that Madeleine would get her hospital built, there was no avoiding being...

Several commentators picked up the idea of influence by Jane Eyre. H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum praised the work as JK 's best to date, for a sentiment, a tenderness, an old-world French...