Next year saw a rich crop of reviews. Sydney Smith
in the Edinburgh Review, while praising HM
's style and her skill at manipulating her readers, damned the novel as over-moralized, strained and unnatural...
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Anna Jane Vardill
In September 1819 the European Magazine carried a poem in praise of AJV
, in which various Muses compete for possession of her.
Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.
Appreciation of FH
was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott
and Byron
, in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge
in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray
, her own publisher)...
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
This splendidly excessive tale was elaborately summarised by the Critical Review. It had the nerve to complain at the end that Owenson ought to write in a more simple and natural manner,
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3d ser. 23 (1811): 195
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
De Staël
is said to have had France read to her on her deathbed, with approbation.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora.
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 333
H. F. Chorley
in the Athenæum thought the poems too closely resembled works by Byron
and Wordsworth
, but allowed that there were some verses which...
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Felicia Hemans
Norma Clarke
sees in this late work some of FH
's strongest poetry and a resolution of the conflicts and inhibitions of her earlier work: Deeply religious, personal, and direct, they reaffirm the centrality of...
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Harriet Martineau
The Athenæum compared this novel favourably to the work of Jane Austen
, saying that HM
outstripped her predecessor in creating characters of a higher order of mental force and spiritual attainment, and offering to...
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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
who, according to the Morning Chronicle, were thrown into a STATE of FURY...
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Martha Fowke
Critic Jerome McGann
enjoys this poem's lovely antitheses, playful surprises, and delicate eroticism,as well as its subtle and significant revision of the critical ideas of Alexander Pope
.
McGann, Jerome. The Poetics of Sensibility: A Revolution in Literary Style. Clarendon.
44
This combination, he...
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Florence Dixie
This book was widely reviewed in provincial and even American as well as London papers. The Leamington Spa Courier and Warwickshire Standard called it a real, living, human production, and one which must ever be...
Byron
praised the Canterbury Tales, but in 1913George Saintsbury
asserted that Byron had done so either irresponsibly or impishly. They were, he said, not exactly bad, but also as far as possible from...
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Mary Agnes Hamilton
The Times Literary Supplement perceptively noted that this story might have been written in refutation of Byron
's dictum: Man's love is a thing apart while it is a woman's whole existence.
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press.
Carew, Dudley. “Folly’s Handbook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1331, p. 532.
532
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L. E. L.
Owing in large part to an article in The Wasp on 7 October 1826, reception of LEL's work was adversely affected in some quarters by rumours that her relationship with William Jerdan
was sexual and...