Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley, 1852, 3 vols.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Mary Russell Mitford | She dedicated this work to Henry Chorley
, without whose persuasion, she said, she would not have written it. Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley, 1852, 3 vols. prelims Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 116: 197 |
Employer | Anna Mary Howitt | AMH
was already writing and drawing as a professional when Henry Chorley
, editor of the Ladies' Companion, commissioned her to go to Oberammergau and report on the passion play. On her return to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Pardoe | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests that JP
hoped for a proposal of marriage from writer and reviewer Henry Fothergill Chorley
, which he never made. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jessie Fothergill | Man of letters Henry Fothergill Chorley
was apparently connected to the family through JF
's father's paternal grandmother. Debenham, Helen. “’Almost always two sides to a question’: the novels of Jessie Fothergill”. Popular Victorian Women Writers, edited by Kay Boardman and Shirley Jones, Manchester University Press, 2004, pp. 66-89. 69 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Ann Browne | MAB
had already met L. E. L.
and Mary Russell Mitford
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | CC
's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright
was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting... |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | FH
was by this time a major literary attraction. Rose Lawrence
describes visiters [sic] and strangers, with letters of introduction,—sketchers and pencillers. Lawrence, Rose. The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems. G. and J. Robinson, etc. and John Murray, 1836. 342 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Ogilvy | Over the years EO
developed friendships many people, a number of whom were involved with the community surrounding the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. Among these friends were Sir David Brewster
, Henry Chorley
,... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | While in London, ER
renewed old friendships and established new. She socialized with Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
, John Wilson Croker
, Henry Chorley
, Lord Lansdowne
, and Anna Jameson
(with whom she corresponded)... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Manning | There was a precedent for this kind of faux-historical document (which the Athenæum reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley
, at once picked up on): Hannah Mary Rathbone
's The Diary of Lady Willoughby, 1844. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1215 (1851): 166 |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | In the AthenæumH. F. Chorley
agreed with Brontë, noting that many passages are written with Miss Kavanagh's usual sentiment and delicacy; but we can wish her no better wish than the earliest possible deliverance... |
Literary responses | Anne Marsh | Henry Fothergill Chorley
in the Athenæum, though as appreciative as ever of AM
's scene-setting and characterization, of her well-known power, and . . . her well-known style, had several grumbles. He complained that... |
Literary responses | Margaret Gatty | A short notice by H. F. Chorley
in the Athenæum was quite dismissive: This is hardly a book for young persons. Mrs. Gatty has always some meaning which she wishes to convey, but her style... |
Literary responses | Adelaide Procter | The Athenæum carried a brief review by H. F. Chorley
congratulating the journal (and in effect himself) on having early recognised that AP
belonged to the Golden Book of English poetesses. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1989 (1865): 799 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. |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | Athenæum reviewer H. F. Chorley
found some fault with it, attributing it generally to JK
's somewhat stereotypical view of French character. He argues that the purity of mind and taste which we have observed... |