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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Charlotte Brontë | CB
was stung by Elizabeth Rigby
's attack on the second edition in the Quarterly, which entered the debate over governesses by reviewing the novel alongside Thackeray
's Vanity Fair and the Report of... |
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