Henry Fothergill Chorley

Standard Name: Chorley, Henry Fothergill
Used Form: H. F. Chorley
Used Form: Henry F. Chorley

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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/.
She now met the Chorley family, Shelton Mackenzie of the Dublin University Magazine, and other figures in Liverpool literary society. She presumably...
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
Many reviews concentrated wholly or solely on Emily's novel. The...
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
in the words of the Atlas, coarse
Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
236, 237
according to the American Review, and...
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...
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.
With respect to the book's literary value, however, he concluded that...
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 Grace Aguilar
This work met with good reception and went through thirty-six editions or reprints by 1881.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
H. F. Chorley 's review in the Athenæum praised the author and her work, considering it a treatment of [w]oman's...
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...

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