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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | She herself thought this better than her novels, but Thackeray
satirised it as Heavenly Chords; A Collection of Sacred Strains by Lady Frances Juliana Flummery. Susan Ferrier
agreed with the author that the prayers... |
| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | Thackeray
wrote scathingly about this novel: If this is exclusive love, it should be a lesson to all men never to marry a woman beyond the rank of a milk-maid and vice-versa. |
| Literary responses | L. E. L. | Thackeray
's review of the novel complimented LEL on her style but repeated the affective fallacy that operated so strongly in criticism of her poetry: The wit of it is really startling; and there are... |
| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | The controversial quality of this book made it popular in the USA as well as in England, and several new editions followed. Thackeray
, however, wrote: We never met with a book more pernicious or... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Grand | The Times Literary Supplement called this novel a preposterous story, preposterously related. qtd. in Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000. 544 |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | When Thackeray
published his Paris Sketch-Book in 1840, he self-consciously distanced himself from what he called the tea-party prattle of Morgan and Frances Trollope
(in Paris and the Parisians, 1836). Jay, Elisabeth. “British Writers and Paris, 1840-1871: a research project in outline”. English Now: Selected Papers from the 20th IAUPE Conference in Lund 2007, edited by Marianne Thormählen, Lund University, 2008, pp. 110-17. 111 |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Thackeray
(associating Morgan in his comments with Frances Trollope
) said the cultural judgements in this book were based on nothing but tea-table gossip. McMaster, Rowland D. Thackeray’s Cultural Frame of Reference: Allusion in The Newcomes. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991. 124 |
| Literary responses | Jane Porter | Fifty years after its publication, Ann Taylor Gilbert
still used The Scottish Chiefs as a measure of a book which had really absorbed her. Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N . 2: 278 |
| Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Admirers of Lady Audley included Thackeray
, according to his daughter Anne
. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979. 9 |
| Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | The Monthly Review found the heroine of this book more interesting than Betsy Thoughtless (with better character-drawing but a continued deficiency in plot and sentiments. It conceded that the whole was doubtless much superior to... |
| Literary responses | Hester Mulso Chapone | |
| Literary responses | Emily Eden | EE
herself remarked that the novel had had more success than I require, and considerably more than I expected. qtd. in Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, 1969, pp. 7-20. 16-17 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Brontë | Harriet Martineau
, finding the work attributed to herself even by members of her own family, felt that the unknown author must know not only my books but myself very well. . . . With... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | John Blackwood
was in general delighted with the manuscript of Amos Barton. Thackeray
, too, read it and was impressed. Blackwood
's few criticisms (particularly of the ending, which he found comparatively feeble) appalled... |
| Literary responses | Hélène Gingold | Among five favourable reviews later quoted, the Daily Telegraph offered an apparently enthusiastic plot-summary. The Liverpool Daily Post likened the work to Thackeray
's Henry Esmond, 1852. qtd. in Gingold, Hélène, and Harry Furniss. Financial Philosophy. Greening, 1902. 91 |
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