Henry Fothergill Chorley

The Athenæum review of this novel was once more by Henry Chorley .

In his review in the Athenæum, H. F. Chorley detected the strong influence of Lady Morgan on the characters and action of this novel.He commented also on the novel's use...

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.

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...

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...

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 bookand claimed that [n]othing more...

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...

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 among those treated there, strongly praising The Forest...

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...

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.

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.The novel was further spoilt...

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...

Henry Fothergill Chorley (who wrote reviews of both the first and second editions of Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio, identifying FF as the sister of N. P. Willis in the first and apparently forgetting...

This must be the book which saddened Mary Russell Mitford and Henry Chorley when they judged that it turns out to be a dead failure. In his obituary of MH , James Britten

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.