Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. A Woman’s Memories of World-Known Men. F. V. White.
I: prelims; II: prelims
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | 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
. Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. A Woman’s Memories of World-Known Men. F. V. White. I: prelims; II: prelims |
Reception | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | In Britain these were attacked by John Wilson Croker
in a vitriolic notice in the Quarterly. Dow, Gillian. “Genuine ’Genuine Anecdotes’: an émigré novel in 1790s Britain”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) 35th Annual Conference, Oxford. |
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... |
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. |
Publishing | Olivia Clarke | |
Literary responses | Frances Burney | 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... |
Literary responses | Frances Burney | The Memoirsdid not win critical acclaim, Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 378 |
Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | 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 |
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... |
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