John Wilson Croker

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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...