John Wilson Croker

She came from the professional class. Her famous namesake, J. W. Croker , was no relation, though his father came from a Devon family.

In her youth MCH 's family associated with various prominent figures. Living close to John Wilson Croker , she became acquainted with many literary people, including Theodore Hook and the family of Caroline Norton ...

They included public men like George Canning , John Philpot Curran , and Lord Erskine , and writers and theatre people like John Philip Kemble , George Colman the younger, dramatist and examiner of plays...

While in London, ER renewed old friendships and established new. She socialized with Sir Edwin Henry Landseer , John Wilson Croker , Henry Chorley , Lord Lansdowne , and Anna Jameson (with whom she corresponded)...

The prose pieces include a dialogue of the dead between the ancient beauty Helen and the modern Madame de Maintenon . Literary historian James Chandler notes that the most substantial piece in the volume is...

One of this novel's topics is concealed identity (which results in repeated changes of name for several central characters). As the story opens, two men land at Dublin (which they find desolate, poverty-struck by the...

J. W. Croker 's notice in the Quarterly Review (in June 1812, wrongly attributed by some to Southey ) was most offensive of all. He reached for the gendered weapons so often drawn against Mary Wollstonecraft

Political economy was controversial in itself, and the potentially scandalous exposition by a young unmarried female of matters having to do with population control provided grist for the mills of hostile reviewers. HM recollected hearing...

The Wanderer was disappointingly received, probably because it read like a work of the 1790s—as essentially it was. J. W. Croker wrote objectionably of it in the Quarterly Review as if the book were a...

Critics in general, from first publication onwards, tended to identify Sydney Owenson with her heroine; the name Glorvina stuck to her thenceforward. The Critical Review (whose notice spelled this name wrong throughout) said it could...

The Memoirsdid not win critical acclaim, though Joanna Baillie and her sister, who had known many of the people depicted in the memoirs, enjoyed them immensely, especially FB 's juvenile letters. Baillie, who...

This novel, said the Critical, deserves great praise for stepping out of the high way of modern romance. Owenson's rendering of its hard Greek names was quite as full...

Croker confessed to liking this piece, but insisted that Owenson had not yet heard the last of his dislike of The Wild Irish Girl.

J. W. Croker in the Quarterly Review faulted the collection for failing to provide a religious basis for its moral judgements. Anna Letitia Barbauld responded with a letter to the Gentleman's Magazine, venting...

The Memoirs were comprehensively rubbished by the reviewers. The Quarterly, in the person of John Wilson Croker , found them long-winded, pompous, and partisan, and their central figure disagreeable. The charge of irreligion was...