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Publishing | Jane Loudon | JL
's last number of The Ladies' Companion: At Home and Abroad appeared: the final issue before the publishers, Bradbury and Evans
, forcibly replaced her as editor against her will, with Henry F. Chorley
. Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life. 121 |
Publishing | Jane Loudon | She had not been in her position long, though, when Evans
made her two successive disturbing visits. On the first he told her that her journal's circulation figures were disappointing, and that she would be... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Gaskell | While researching her biography of Charlotte Brontë
, EG
was warned by Henry Chorley
that unpublished letters were protected by copyright, and that she should seek permission from the executors. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 403 |
Occupation | Adelaide Kemble | AK
undertook a singing tour of France and Germany with family and friends, including Fanny Kemble
, Mary Anne Thackeray
and Henry Chorley
. Liszt
joined them in Germany. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray. 54 |
Occupation | Adelaide Kemble | AK
's stature as a singer was evaluated shortly after her retirement by Anna Jameson
in her Memoirs and Essays, 1846, and twenty years after it by Henry Chorley
in his Thirty Years' Musical... |
Literary responses | Camilla Crosland | The Athenæum review did not address the book's literary qualities. Instead, Henry Fothergill Chorley
merely wondered how persons of taste and sense can be drawn into such frenzies. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1552 (1857): 941 |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | The Athenæum (again in the person of Henry Chorley
, again reviewing ER
as a male author), said she was still improving. Despite the difficulties posed by handling such well-known material, in this novel the... |
Literary responses | Eliza Lynn Linton | This and her next novel received a moderately good press, including a review by H. F. Chorley
in the Athenæum. The Times review of Azeth, the Egyptian was particularly gratifying. Overall, however, its reception... |
Literary responses | Eliza Lynn Linton | Athenæum reviewer H. F. Chorley
felt that the author was now raving like a pagan Pythoness—the female oracle whose pronouncements were not expected to be comprehensible: There is a positive untruth to the very... |
Literary responses | Lucie Duff Gordon | The Athenæum's review of Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1862-3 pronounced Lady Duff Gordon's letters to be the most popular portion of this book Athenæum. J. Lection. 1917 (1864): 104 |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | Henry Fothergill Chorley
, again reviewing ER
for the Athenæum and still convinced that she was a man, wrote that he retained in this foray into the unpleasantness of the modern world the same power... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Chorley
also wrote the note on FH
in The Authors of England: A Series of Medallion Portraits, 1838, claiming for her a place of honour Chorley, Henry Fothergill, and Achille Collas. The Authors of England. Charles Tilt. 1 |
Literary responses | Eliza Lynn Linton | Henry Chorley
, the reviewer on this occasion for the Athenæum, thought the stories ghastly in the extreme, admirably calculated to keep readers awake at night. Yet he felt the gathering of this terrible... |
Literary responses | Amelia B. Edwards | Henry Fothergill Chorley
in the Athenæum faulted the book as being something close to a textbook under the guise of entertainment. Young people, he argued, resent such books as engines of oppression. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1788 (1862): 151 |
Literary responses | Harriet Smythies | Henry Fothergill Chorley
, reviewing the book for the Athenæum, wrote that The Life of a Beauty was a mere common novel, with a common heroine. Athenæum. J. Lection. 979 (1846): 789 |
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