William Enfield

Standard Name: Enfield, William

Connections

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Anthologization Anna Letitia Barbauld
For this her great support and encouragement was her brother (as he, rather than her husband , continued to be for her later publications). After he left home to pursue his studies, she sent him...
Cultural formation Hannah Cullwick
To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing...
Education Harriette Wilson
HW 's story of her education is one of tyranny and resistance. Her worst beating from her father was incurred for obstinacy. Her elder sister Jane (called Diana in her memoirs) was supposed to teach...
Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
The literary society of ALB 's time was, as biographer Betsy Rodgers notes, small and intimate.
Rodgers, Betsy. Georgian Chronicle: Mrs Barbauld and her Family. Methuen, 1958.
80
Writers all knew each other and kept in touch; those who did not live in London visited frequently...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Wollstonecraft
The full title is The Female Reader: or, Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Best Writers, and Disposed under Proper Heads; for the Improvement of Young Women. MW said she had...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Letitia Barbauld
William Enfield quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy . Her volume...
Literary responses Phebe Gibbes
The Critical Review thought it mediocre circulating-library fare (though the closing scenes were better than the rest), while William Enfield in the Monthly Review praised this now lost work for its easy and agreeable style...
Literary responses Charlotte Smith
The Critical Review, reviewing this book, called CS a sister-queen
qtd. in
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
141
of the novel with Frances Burney . William Enfield in the Monthly praised it warmly.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 548
Wollstonecraft , probable author of the...
Literary responses Phebe Gibbes
Conservative reviewers were offended. The Critical sneered at Maria (presented, it says, as far too wise for a young lady), who remains single , that she may have more time, we suppose, to write improbable...
Literary responses Anna Maria Bennett
William Enfield in the Monthly Review thought this book an inferior imitation of Burney 's Cecilia, but added a little faint praise. The Critical, with depressing predictability, censured AMB 's intricate plot and...
Literary responses Charlotte Smith
Again the Analytical reviewer may have been Wollstonecraft , and if so she was better pleased than before: another novel, written with her usual flow of language and happy discrimination of manners. . ....
Literary responses Phebe Gibbes
This novel aroused much interest. One letter was reprinted almost entire, without attribution, on 2 July 1789 in the Aberdeen Magazine as a Picture of the Mode of living at Calcutta. In a letter from...
Literary responses Anna Maria Bennett
Enfield in the Monthly found the novel excessive in various ways: in characters, incidents, length, and tolerance of juvenile indiscretions.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 375
The Critical judged the story to be interesting though improbable, and sometimes ungrammatical...
Literary responses Charlotte Smith
Some reviewers (who saw the novel as domestic rather than political) were not enthusiastic; the Critical claimed in a lengthy notice to be disappointed in almost every respect with this performance, and deplored the example...
Literary responses Ann Gomersall
Both the Monthly Review and Critical Review liked what they saw as Eleonora's simple plot, good morality, and Yorkshire humour. The Critical wished the author for the future the success which she so well...

Timeline

1774: William Enfield first published his often-reprinted...

Writing climate item

1774

William Enfield first published his often-reprinted pedagogic anthology The Speaker.
Although this is the earliest edition recorded in the English Short Title Catalogue, it calls itself a new edition.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

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