John Wilson Croker

The work contains reminiscences of MCH 's friends and acquaintances. Among them were John Wilson Croker , the Norton family, William Wordsworth , Fanny Trollope , the younger Alexandre Dumas , and the daughter of Caroline Clive .

MJ 's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb , but also Dugald Stewart and Henry Brougham ), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice against...

Most . . . but not all of FR 's Recollections of Dr. Johnson was printed by John Wilson Croker in his edition of Boswell 's Life of Samuel Johnson, as one...

Sydney Owenson replied to a series of anonymous satires by the young J. W. Croker on Dublin theatre people, with a spirited pamphlet lampoon bearing her initials.

In the society that Morgan depicts, the Irish Catholic gentry are mostly absent, scattered in European exile. The peasantry, dirt-poor but generous-hearted, include Tim O'Leary, schoolmaster of a hedge school, scholar and expert in Irish...

In Britain these were attacked by John Wilson Croker in a vitriolic notice in the Quarterly.

OC began privately circulating her rhyming-couplet burlesque of J. W. Croker 's attack in the Quarterly on her sister 's book France.

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...

De Staël is said to have had France read to her on her deathbed, with approbation. Her lover Benjamin Constant defended Morgan from attack, and Morgan's own friend Lady Charleville , who had previously...

Croker , who again reviewed for the Quarterly, was obviously one of the race of intolerant critics who, according to the Morning Chronicle, were thrown into a STATE of FURY...

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...

Lockhart praised this article, writing: Mr Croker pronounces it charming both for the sense and pleasantry. I scarcely think he ever said a word in favour of any other article not his own.

A critical and prejudiced review by John Wilson Croker provoked Lady Louisa's fighting response in her Supplement to the Anecdotes.

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...