Henry Fothergill Chorley

While researching her biography of Charlotte Brontë , EG was warned by Henry Chorley that unpublished letters were protected by copyright, and that she should seek permission from the executors.

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.He compared the...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Man of letters Henry Fothergill Chorley was apparently connected to the family through JF 's father's paternal grandmother.

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...

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.

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 bookand claimed that [n]othing more...

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.

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...

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...

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.