Henry Fothergill Chorley

In the AthenæumH. F. Chorley agreed with Brontë, noting that many passages are written with Miss Kavanagh's usual sentiment and delicacy; but we can wish her no better wish than the earliest possible deliverance...

Athenæum reviewer H. F. Chorley found some fault with it, attributing it generally to JK 's somewhat stereotypical view of French character. He argues that the purity of mind and taste which we have observed...

In an extremely lengthy and detailed Athenæum review, H. F. Chorley notes that Miss Kavanagh is probably the only living Englishwoman [to have] waded through many of the more obscure works she discusses. He adds...

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...

MJJ stayed in Liverpool with Henry Fothergill Chorley and his wife to recuperate from illness and depression.

A Commonplace Book was reviewed by the Literary Gazette, the Athenæum (by Henry Fothergill Chorley ), The Spectator and Gentleman's Magazine.Elizabeth Gaskell pronounced herself in a letter to ABJ delighted with its graceful suggestive wisdom.

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...

AMH was already writing and drawing as a professional when Henry Chorley , editor of the Ladies' Companion, commissioned her to go to Oberammergau and report on the passion play. On her return to...

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. In his obituary of MH , James Britten

The year after FH died, Rose Lawrence , an old friend, published The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems, And Recollections of Mrs. Hemans, and H. F. Chorley published Memorials of...

FH was by this time a major literary attraction. Rose Lawrence describes visiters [sic] and strangers, with letters of introduction,—sketchers and pencillers. At about this time Hemans met Lawrence, Caroline Hamilton , and Henry Fothergill Chorley

FH also published in many of the gift books or literary annuals that became popular from the later 1820s: the Amulet, the Book of Beauty, Christmas Box, the English Annual, the...

Chorley (who included extracts from Hemans's letters) represents her as home-loving, but also as humorous and even mischievous: she could talk delicious nonsense, and well as inspired sense, and the utilitarian and the serious, who...

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 among those treated there, strongly praising The Forest...

A short notice by H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum was quite dismissive: This is hardly a book for young persons. Mrs. Gatty has always some meaning which she wishes to convey, but her style...