Horace Walpole

Walpole thought this work careless and incorrect, but there are very pretty things in it. The Critical Review, covering it early the next year, claimed not to know the author's identity but...

Years before this Walpole had remarked to his friend Horace Mann that MBCL had something of a turn towards poetry.

Frances Burney thought this the best of all Barbauld's poems. Hannah More wrote to thank ALB for writing so well on a subject so near her, More's heart, and recommended the poem to Elizabeth Montagu

This time a review (again dealing in imagination with a man) quoted from the preface, and pronounced: This is no common novel—it may, in some respects, claim a place upon the same shelf with The...

Though CM 's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray and Horace Walpole thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we...

Percy was a great hit, with twenty-one performances, and 4,000 copies sold by March 1777. HM made £600 from it in the theatre, and £150 from Cadell for the copyright. She thought, however, the public...

The Critical Review once again praised the style and characters. It judged the novel too long and its plot too complicated, but that the whole was certainly superior to the majority of flimsy publications of...

As she had for her earlier volumes, CM got for this one the Critical's lead review of the month. The journal was still prepared to accept her critical attitude towards the monarchy: Our author...

The Critical Review (to which the author's identity was no secret) said of it that HM 's narrative gift was no contemptible endowment, and that her gaiety of humour was pleasing. It did, however...

The Monthly Review gave CM 's modern history a long, respectful notice in several issues, praising her manly energy. The Critical, which allowed that her observations were frequently both judicious...

Walpole eulogised the fertility of ideas in the poem, but Anna Letitia Barbauld , as a Dissenter unconvinced of the moral excellence of the Church of England, wrote a stinging riposte.

Walpole thought CM 's principles sounder and more securely settled than Burke's, while Burke (coining the term republican Virago) judged her the ablest among his opponents. But John Wilkes astutely pointed out...

This work became an overnight best-seller. Queen Charlotte dismissed her Sunday hairdresser. A fifth edition was needed by April, and two more followed within a few more months. All had large print-runs. The...

Her prayers became publicly well-known through Thomas Bentley 's printing of fifty of them, some long, in his Monument of Matrones in 1582 under the title The Praiers made by the right Honourable Ladie Frances...

An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World was praised in letters by many of HM 's friends and associates.Walpole wrote: It is prettily written, but her enthusiasm increases. It...