Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley, 1852, 3 vols.
prelims
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 | 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 |
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/. |
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)... |
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... |
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 | Camilla Crosland | Lydia was reviewed in the Athenæum by Henry Fothergill Chorley
. While he did not have much praise for the work itself (some passages were amusing, others pathetic), he was generous with his... |
Literary responses | Mary Martin | H. F. Chorley
, reviewing for the Athenæum, praised the author's descriptive picturesquenessand noted that her characters are drawn with more force than often belongs to heroes and villains imagined by the Women... |
Literary responses | Augusta Webster | This first poetic attempt was well received. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 240: 333 |
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 | Mary Martin | In his review in the Athenæum, H. F. Chorley
detected the strong influence of Lady Morgan
on the characters and action of this novel. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1184 (1850): 707 |