The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
John Cordy Jeaffreson
Standard Name: Jeaffreson, John Cordy
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | MADH
moved in London society all her life and had many literary friends and acquaintances. Helen Black
mentions her shelves of autograph copies of her friends' books, particularly those by S. C. Hall
and Anna Maria Hall |
| Literary responses | Eliza Cook | This was reviewed for the Athenæum by John Cordy Jeaffreson
. |
| Literary responses | Amelia B. Edwards | John Cordy Jeaffreson
paid this novel the compliment of a three-column Athenæum review. He predicted eventual success as a novelist for its author, even though he found grave faults in her present production. ABE
... |
| Literary responses | Amelia B. Edwards | John Cordy Jeaffreson
gave two full Athenæum columns to Half-a-Million of Money, but largely in order to complain that in spite of its unusual plot the novel was essentially derivative, and sapped his confidence... |
| Literary responses | Amelia B. Edwards | The Saturday Review thought this novel inferior to Barbara's History but superior to Half-a-Million of Money, and decidedly unhackneyed in tone. Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott, 1891, 2 vols. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2198 (1870): 776 |
| Literary responses | Ellen Wood | John Cordy Jeaffreson
in the Athenæum was tepid in his praise. Commenting generally on implicit class grounds, he argued that in EW
's work deficiencies are numerous, but in different degrees they possess a quality... |
| Literary responses | Emma Robinson | This book of stories was well received by the Athenæum, which described it as rich, delicate, and dextrously woven. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1892 (1864): 151 |
| Literary responses | Margaret Roberts | The Athenæum reviewer, John Jeaffreson
, was on the whole positive, finding in the novel the promise of goodness, if not of excellence, Athenæum. J. Lection. 1863 (1863): 47 |
| Literary responses | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | John Cordy Jeaffreson
(another personal friend of MADH
) writing in the Athenæum called this an ingenious, closely written and extremely exciting story, Athenæum. J. Lection. 2005 (1866): 425 |
| Literary responses | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | This book was enthusiastically received. Hurst and Blackett
had substance to justify their blocks of consecutive Times advertisements with excerpts from reviews: Well told. From one end to the other, it fixes attention,earnest and... |
| Literary responses | Fanny Aikin Kortright | The Athenæum review by John Cordy Jeaffreson
held FAK
's novel up to ridicule. Both its plot-summary and its quotations are intended to provoke mirth. Found! found and lost! I roared, like a wild beast... |
| Literary responses | Matilda Betham-Edwards | In the AthenæumJohn Cordy Jeaffreson
paid MBE
the back-handed compliment of saying that others of her children's books were better than this one, which is far too full of dates and guide-book learning to... |
| Literary responses | Florence Marryat | It was reviewed for the Athenæum by John Cordy Jeaffreson
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2139 (1868): 27 |
| Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | John Cordy Jeaffreson
led off his Athenæum review with the usual protest against the puffery of an instantaneous second edition and advertisements. He pronounced this the worst of MEB
's novels to date. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1908 (1864): 703 |
| Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | John Cordy Jeaffreson
's Athenæum review found Dead-Sea Fruitless revolting and unwholesome Athenæum. J. Lection. 2120 (1868): 827 |
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