Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
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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... |
Literary responses | Mary Howitt | 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. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 175 |
Literary responses | Catherine Hubback | H.F. Chorley
acidly commented in a comic review of the novel for the Athenæum: We are not pious enough to relish the tone of argument,—we are not irreligious enough to find the strained tones... |
Literary responses | Anna Brownell Jameson | A Commonplace Book was reviewed by the Literary Gazette, the Athenæum (by Henry Fothergill Chorley
), The Spectator and Gentleman's Magazine. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press. 47 Jameson, Anna Brownell. Anna Jameson: Letters and Friendships (1812-1860). Editor Erskine, Beatrice Caroline, T. Fisher Unwin. 295 |
Literary responses | Geraldine Jewsbury | The London Literary Gazette reported that the novel displayed considerable intellectual powers, a shrewd observance of character, and a general talent . . . . wanting only some polish to its roughness to raise it... |
Travel | Maria Jane Jewsbury | MJJ
stayed in Liverpool with Henry Fothergill Chorley
and his wife to recuperate from illness and depression. Clarke, Norma. Ambitious Heights. Routledge. 158 |
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... |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | In an extremely lengthy and detailed Athenæum review, H. F. Chorley
notes that Miss Kavanagh is probably the only living Englishwoman [to have] waded through many of the more obscure works she discusses. He adds... |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | H. F. Chorley
, the Athenæum reviewer, lauded it as an excellent story for young people, sound in morals and pleasant in incident,—with only one passing apparition of the Deus ex machina to disturb our... |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | H. F. Chorley
reviewed it in the Athenæum, noting that, even though from the earliest announcement of her plan we were convinced that Madeleine would get her hospital built, there was no avoiding being... |
Textual Production | Julia Kavanagh | Several commentators picked up the idea of influence by Jane Eyre. H. F. Chorley
in the Athenæum praised the work as JK
's best to date, for a sentiment, a tenderness, an old-world French... |
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... |
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 | 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... |
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