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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | 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 | 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. |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
| 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 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Admirers of Lady Audley included Thackeray
, according to his daughter Anne
. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 9 |
| Literary responses | Hester Mulso Chapone | |
| 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. Gingold, Hélène, and Harry Furniss. Financial Philosophy. Greening. 91 |
| Literary responses | Emily Eden | EE
herself remarked that the novel had had more success than I require, and considerably more than I expected. Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, pp. 7-20. 16-17 |
| Literary responses | Lucas Malet | Two things about this novel gave offence initially and had a long-term effect on its reputation: its treating the nasty Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| 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 | Catherine Gore | The Westminster Review said this novel was in itself a London Directory, Vargo, Lisa. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lodore</span> and the ’Novel of Society’”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 425-40. 435 Vargo, Lisa. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lodore</span> and the ’Novel of Society’”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 425-40. 435 |
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