William Enfield

Standard Name: Enfield, William

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Literary responses Margaret Holford
William Enfield , writing in the Monthly Review, found the narrative clumsily handled here, with the subplot hanging like a dead weight on the main story, and the characters, sentiments, and language alike unremarkable.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 615
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 Isabella Kelly
The Critical made a basic misjudgement of The Abbey of St. Asaph (seemingly paying more attention to title than to content): it listed all the appurtenances of the Radcliffe an novel, with which it said...
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 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 Anna Maria Mackenzie
William Enfield in the Monthly Review deplored the injudicious rendering of the simple Bible story into meretricious ornaments of redundant metaphors and prosaic rhythmus [sic].
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 819
Literary responses Charlotte Smith
Again the Critical Review was lukewarm, while Enfield in the Monthly praised the plot, characters, and CS 's digressive reflections.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 626-7
A passage on the slave trade from early in the novel is included...
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.
1: 375
The Critical judged the story to be interesting though improbable, and sometimes ungrammatical...
Literary responses Anna Maria Mackenzie
The Critical felt that this novel's power of raising feelings is but feeble, though at least such feelings would be on the side of virtue. William Enfield in the Monthly was much more positive...
Literary responses Charlotte Smith
Reviewers were more approving than previously of CS 's politics, but began to complain of her accusatory fictionalising of the financial details of her own situation.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan.
226
The Critical argued that such personal appeals were...
Literary responses Anne Burke
The Critical Review, though it found the story very confused, nevertheless thought this novel had considerable merit, and found the style easy and correct.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 666
William Enfield in the Monthly agreed that it...
Literary responses Margaret Minifie
The Critical belatedly noted: She is now no longer in partnership, but sets up for herself.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
50 (1780): 168
It approved the novel's morally didactic tone, its style, characters, and narrative, but warned that it...
Literary responses Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
William Enfield in the Monthly Review praised the novel only faintly, although he admitted that the story was well told.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
1: 576
Literary responses Mary Charlton
This novel, although it seems not to have been remembered in the course of MC 's later career, received three lengthy reviews in serious periodicals. William Enfield in the Monthly, quoted above, said he...
Literary responses Eliza Parsons
The Critical Review treated this work with respect while placing it firmly in an inferior category: strictly moral and generally pleasing . . . . We wish our circulating libraries were always so well supplied...

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