Henry Fothergill Chorley

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

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Literary responses Georgiana Fullerton
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...
Literary responses Jane Williams
Henry Fothergill Chorley was dismissive of these volumes in reviewing for the Athenæum. He commented that Price's labours and studies might have been valuable had he devoted them to any wider field of tillage...
Literary responses Geraldine Jewsbury
The London Literary Gazette reported that the novel displayed considerable intellectual powers, a shrewd observance of character, and a general talent . . . . wanting only some polish to its roughness to raise it...
Literary responses Anne Manning
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...
Literary responses Emma Jane Worboise
This was reviewed for the Athenæum by Henry Fothergill Chorley .
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.
Literary responses Anne Marsh
The Athenæum, which had reported favourably after its peep at the first instalment of Mount Sorel,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
897 (1845):14
gave the task of reviewing the complete work to Henry Fothergill Chorley . He felt...
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...
Literary responses Adelaide Procter
The Spectator greeted this collection effusively as without question the most promising of any first appearance in this century, except that of Keats , and the Saturday Review asserted, presumably with reference to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
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.
Easson, Angus, editor. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. Routledge.
62
He compared the...
Literary responses Julia Kavanagh
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...
Literary responses Julia Kavanagh
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...
Literary responses Anne Marsh
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...
Literary responses Adelaide Procter
The Athenæum review of the second series, again by H. F. Chorley pronounced AP a real artist and this second instalment of poems to include some that must and will take rank among the most...
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
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.
Easson, Angus, editor. Elizabeth Gaskell: The Critical Heritage. Routledge.
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Literary responses Anne Marsh
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.

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