Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
25 (1821): 532
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Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Croker
, who again reviewed for the Quarterly, was obviously one of the race of intolerant critics Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 25 (1821): 532 |
Literary responses | Maria Edgeworth | 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... |
Literary responses | Maria Edgeworth | 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... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Rigby | 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. Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages. 1: 165 |
Literary responses | Lady Louisa Stuart | A critical and prejudiced review by John Wilson Croker
provoked Lady Louisa's fighting response in her Supplement to the Anecdotes. Rubenstein, Jill. “Women’s Biography as a Family Affair: Lady Louisa Stuart’s ’Biographical Anecdotes’ of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”. Prose Studies, Vol. 9 , No. 1, pp. 3-21. 18-19 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | 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)... |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | 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
... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Croker | She came from the professional class. Her famous namesake, J. W. Croker
, was no relation, though his father came from a Devon family. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
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