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Literary responses | Eliza Parsons | 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... |
Literary responses | Jane West | 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... |
Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | Very few copies sold. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25. 3 |
Literary responses | Eliza Fenwick | Secresy had six reviews in 1795; EF
wrote much later that they blamed the principles but commended the style & Imagination. Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press. 71 |
Literary responses | Sarah Pearson | 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. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. (October 1794): 99 |
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 | Anne Plumptre | 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... |
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 Porter | 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... |
Literary responses | Mary Martha Sherwood | Sherwood's father found The Traditions, correctly she said, grounded on high and chivalrous feeling, and ignorance of life. Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton. 122 Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton. 123 |
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 | 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... |
Literary responses | Clara Reeve | The Critical Review (which assumed the author to be male) defined his intention as to interest the imagination . . . by going into the marvellous, without transgressing the bounds of credibility. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 44 (1777): 154 |
Literary responses | Ann Gomersall | Again the Critical Review enjoyed AG
's humour, if not her plotting. It supposed her to be influenced by George Lillo
's bourgeois tragedy The London Merchant (having in mind, no doubt, the vindication of... |
Literary responses | Mary Robinson | MR
's daughter says the first edition sold out in a single day. Five more impressions followed. Reviewers were less keen. Though William Enfield
in the Monthly Review praised the novel's richness of language and... |
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