Henry Fothergill Chorley

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

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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.
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among those treated there, strongly praising The Forest...
Literary responses Eliza Lynn Linton
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...
Literary responses Amelia B. Edwards
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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1788 (1862): 151
Literary responses Harriet Smythies
Henry Fothergill Chorley , reviewing the book for the Athenæum, wrote that The Life of a Beauty was a mere common novel, with a common heroine.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
979 (1846): 789
The novel was further spoilt...
Literary responses Eliza Lynn Linton
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...
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...
Literary responses Mary Howitt
This must be the book which saddened Mary Russell Mitford and Henry Chorley when they judged that it turns out to be a dead failure.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
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In his obituary of MH , James Britten
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 Charlotte Maria Tucker
Grudgingly, Henry Fothergill Chorley in the Athenæum said this book was clearly meant for the gentler sex, and that for readers willing to judge it as a religious nouvellette, the author has not succeeded...
Literary responses Catherine Hubback
H.F. Chorley acidly commented in a comic review of the novel for the Athenæum: We are not pious enough to relish the tone of argument,—we are not irreligious enough to find the strained tones...
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...
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 Augusta Webster
This first poetic attempt was well received.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 333
H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum thought the poems too closely resembled works by Byron and Wordsworth , but allowed that there were some verses which...
Literary responses Anna Brownell Jameson
A Commonplace Book was reviewed by the Literary Gazette, the Athenæum (by Henry Fothergill Chorley ), The Spectator and Gentleman's Magazine.
Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press.
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Elizabeth Gaskell pronounced herself in a letter to ABJ delighted with its graceful suggestive wisdom.
Jameson, Anna Brownell. Anna Jameson: Letters and Friendships (1812-1860). Editor Erskine, Beatrice Caroline, T. Fisher Unwin.
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Literary responses Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
In his review in the Athenæum, Henry Fothergill Chorley admitted that the novel wasnot wholly devoid of attraction and that it contained a tolerably lively picture of the court of Louis Quatorze ...

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