Altinel, Savkar. “Man Trouble”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4237, p. 676.
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Literary responses | Zoë Fairbairns | Savkar Altinel
in the Times Literary Supplement was highly critical of this novel, Altinel, Savkar. “Man Trouble”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4237, p. 676. 676 |
Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Thackeray
's review said, with apparent disdain: Supposing that Pall-mall were the world . . . [this] might be a good guide book. . . . the moral is that which very likely the author... |
Literary responses | Catherine Gore | CG
, identified during her lifetime with satire on the upper classes, was depicted by P. G. Patmore
in Chatsworth; or, The Romance of a Week, 1844, Lady Bab Brilliant, who publicly lashed... |
Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford
spoke for the more conventional side of early nineteenth-century opinion when she wrote that in spite of her terrible coarseness, [she] has certainly done two or three marvelously clever things. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 316 |
Literary responses | Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton | Bulwer's Newgate novels were insistently skewered by William Maginn
, and after 1836 by Thackeray
, in Fraser's Magazine. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
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 | Ann Radcliffe | Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 221-2 |
Literary responses | Sarah Grand | The Times Literary Supplement called this novel a preposterous story, preposterously related. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge. 544 |
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 | 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, pp. 110-17. 111 |
Literary responses | Mary Ann Radcliffe | The later currency of this book is shown by Thackeray
's romance-obsessed schoolboy character in The Newcomes, who draws illustrations to it and is frightened by them himself. McMaster, Rowland D. Thackeray’s Cultural Frame of Reference: Allusion in The Newcomes. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 59 |
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. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 65 |
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. 124 |
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 | 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... |
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