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Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | In the Monthly Review, Ralph Griffiths
passed a judgement which was inflected against Betsy Thoughtless by issues of gender. He guessed that the author was female because of the novel's attention to matters of... |
Literary responses | May Laffan | Overlooking the weak management of the plot because the main aim of the author is a social picture, the Athenæum called Christy Carew a truthful account of Dublin society told in such a way that... |
Literary responses | Sarah Chapone | SC
's friend and printer Richardson
saw her project in a different and far more simple light than she did: as the administering by a good woman of an antidote to the Poison shed by... |
Literary responses | Mary Lamb | In reading The Father's Wedding-day, Walter Savage Landor
said he pressed my temples with both hands, and tears ran down to my elbows.. He read this story over and over again, Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 244 |
Literary responses | Sarah Fielding | Samuel Richardson
respected The Cry as a new Species of Writing, sent copies to two friends (Sophia Wescomb
and Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh
), and wanted it to go into a second edition— Londry, Michael. “Our dear Miss Jenny Collier”. Times Literary Supplement, pp. 13-14. 13 |
Literary responses | Marghanita Laski | The Times Literary Supplement called this novel a sad and cautionary idyll, and yet [a]ltogether a witty lark. Charques, Richard Denis. “Mayfair Comedy”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2235, p. 581. 581 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Griffith | The original letters were immensely popular with readers (among others Sarah Harriet Burney
was a devotee); their authors became famous under their pseudonyms. Not everyone agreed in admiring them, however. Lady Bradshaigh
remarked to Samuel Richardson |
Literary responses | Clara Reeve | The Critical Review evaluated this novel respectfully, calling it pleasing and interesting, but John Noorthouck
, writing in the Monthly, dismissed it impatiently as one of the regrettably numerous progeny of Samuel Richardson
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 544 |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Henry James
's review in 1865 considered Braddon's success alongside that of Collins
, pronouncing her the founder of the sensation novel (defined as devising domestic mysteries adapted to the wants of a sternly prosaic... |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | The Critical Review, which had praised AO
's earlier work, thought this novel equally well done, and that the description of the heroine's death could stand comparison with those of Richardson
's Clarissa or... |
Literary responses | Mary Leapor | This volume attracted attention from Samuel Richardson
, Christopher Smart
, and the young William Cowper
, as well as from its chief promoters, John Duncombe
and Susanna Highmore
. Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol. 4 , pp. 313-43. 327-8 |
Literary responses | Susan Smythies | |
Literary responses | Anne Halkett | This work is the basis of AH
's reputation. The publication of 1875 provoked some biographical and critical comment, but less than might have been expected. Halkett, Anne, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe. “Preface, Introduction, Select Bibliography”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis, Clarendon Press, p. v - xxi. xix |
Literary responses | Anne Marsh | Chorley
's Athenæum review is remarkable for two things: for the vehemence with which he praised the novel's plotting and the climactic scene of preparations for the wedding (which he quoted at length, only regretting... |
Literary responses | Jane West | When the fourth volume appeared in 1789, the Critical found it heavy, languid and uninteresting, and judged the serial publication to have been a mistake. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 68 (1789): 495 |
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