Henry Fielding

The Critical Review praised AL 's ability to invent and entertain, but objected to the detailed depiction of villainy (inviting imitation) and the authorial remarks in the manner of Fielding , without his genius...

The Critical Review later identified this story as an imitation of Henry Fielding .

The Critical Review noted that SS was imitating Richardson in this novel (as she had imitated Fielding in her last). In The Brothers it found all the machinery of a modern novel, without the overall...

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...

The editor of MC 's travel account, Alexander Fergusson , did not think much of her novel; he wrote that it scarcely fulfilled expectations.He thought that many of her characters and episodes, though...

The Critical Review (in January 1804) noted the catchpenny appeal of the title to devotees of the gothic: in these days when ghosts and mysteries are so fashionable. It thought, however, that this novel told...

The Critical belatedly noted: She is now no longer in partnership, but sets up for herself. It approved the novel's morally didactic tone, its style, characters, and narrative, but warned that it...

The Critical Review (besides alleging indebtedness to Henry Fielding ) judged that both characters and story were well done, but that the ending was wildly improbable. The Anti-Jacobin notice was prefaced by...

Popular fiction of PA 's type is a target of parody in Henry Fielding 's Jonathan Wild.Sterne , too, may have had her work in mind in his burlesque story of the...

The New London Review ranked this novel much above mediocrity although over-crowded with incident. It felt that MC had made an error of judgement in putting into the mouths of her inferior personages what it...

CL 's The Female Quixote was crucially reviewed by Henry Fielding in his Covent Garden Journal.

The Critical Review was enthusiastic about A Gossip's Story, recommending it as an antidote to the pernicious maxims of most modern sentimental novels. The reviewer said that West's frequent touches of delicate humour came...

In the Monthly Review, Ralph Griffiths passed a judgement which was inflected against Betsy Thoughtless by issues of gender. He guessed that the author was female because of the novel's attention to matters of...

Again the sexual content was an issue. Devlin finds both reticence and modesty in EAR , but critics found the book's sexual candour appalling, or called it crude or [r]ather too full blooded, or...

The form is epistolary: not an exchange of letters but a single, retrospective letter in which the now older Ophelia looks back. The heroine, brought up in isolation in Wales by an aunt who has...