William Enfield

ALB collected and edited an anthology entitled The Female Speaker: she acknowledged the example of the popular The Speaker, edited by her friend William Enfield (which dated from 1774 and had quoted her...

In summer 1789 she wrote a poem of complex feeling, An Epistle to Dr Enfield, which she said he was to throw into the Mersey on a farewell visit to Warrington. It too...

ALB 's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body. She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...

This issue was a continuing interest of Barbauld's. She had contributed five hymns, anonymously, to William Enfield 's Hymns for Public Worship (published at Warrington in 1772), and had made manuscript notes in the...

Very few copies sold. The single review, recalled by JB as significant, was by the Rev. William Enfield , who wrote in the Monthly Review of November 1791, that the poems were simple, unexaggerated,...

Secresy had six reviews in 1795; EF wrote much later that they blamed the principles but commended the style & Imagination. The Critical Review was put off by the title but then moved to...

The Critical Review sounded somewhat divided in its judgement. It commended this work's general good sense and tendency, and found the incidents, in the first volume at any rate, probable, interesting, and affecting, and interspersed...

The Critical Review cited West's preface approvingly and noted that she had fulfilled the intentions there set out. William Enfield in the Monthly Review professed himself delighted to see fictional talent successfully employed to efface...

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...

The Critical Review reported that this book was written upon the same plan with the Adventures of a Guinea, which the writer has ingeniously imitated.(The reference is to Charles Johnstone 's...

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...

Antoinette was well reviewed. The Critical hailed a novel which neither endangered its readers' morals nor bored them with constant moralising. It dropped hints about the author's identity which amounted to puffing, saying it believed...

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...

The Critical Review welcomed the first volume, but said this young genius was worthy of, or needed, further cultivation. When volume two rapidly followed, the journal felt that it was premature. It complained that the...

Sherwood's father found The Traditions, correctly she said, grounded on high and chivalrous feeling, and ignorance of life.MMS said later that it was well-written for a seventeen-year-old. It received a good...