Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages.
1: 165
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Olivia Clarke | |
| 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. |
| Textual Features | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | 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... |
| Textual Production | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | 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. Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 56 |
| Textual Production | Frances Reynolds | Most . . . but not all Hill, George Birkbeck, editor. Johnsonian Miscellanies. Clarendon Press. 1: xi |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | 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... |
| 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 |
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