William Enfield

Standard Name: Enfield, William

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Literary responses Susannah Gunning
SG 's new notoriety helped her popularity as a writer. The Gentleman's Magazine found Anecdotes to be the production of an elegant and accomplished mind, though it complained of printer's errors and errors in French...
Literary responses Maria Susanna Cooper
The Critical Review welcomed this novel because it was not the work of a mercenary (throwing light on the continued prejudice against writing as a trade or profession), and said it was well calculated to...
Literary responses Regina Maria Roche
The Critical Review thought that this novel, if possibly amusing, was definitely forgettable.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 596-7
William Enfield in the Monthly found it natural, amusing, and romantic: the work was above contempt even though it had...
Literary responses Margaret Holford
This novel was somewhat condescendingly noticed in the Critical Review as artless, an interesting little story, related in a pleasing manner, though vulnerable to various criticisms. William Enfield in the Monthly expressed indulgence towards...
Literary responses Maria Susanna Cooper
The Critical Review announced that MSChas executed her task with taste and judgement.
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 237
Enfield 's Monthly notice was much longer and more appreciative, praising the story, style, characters, and catastrophe (that is...
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...
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, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 615
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.
qtd. in
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
44 (1777): 154
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 Joanna Baillie
Very few copies sold.
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25.
3
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,...
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, 2019.
71
The Critical Review was put off by the title but then moved to...
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 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].
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 819
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 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...

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