Henry Fothergill Chorley

Standard Name: Chorley, Henry Fothergill
Used Form: H. F. Chorley
Used Form: Henry F. Chorley

Connections

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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
French and American editions soon followed.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 197
It was reissued by Cambridge University Press
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
At about this time Hemans met Lawrence, Caroline Hamilton , and Henry Fothergill Chorley
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/.
She now met the Chorley family, Shelton Mackenzie of the Dublin University Magazine, and other figures in Liverpool literary society. She presumably...
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
H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum thought the poems too closely resembled works by Byron and Wordsworth , but allowed that there were some verses which...
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
He commented also on the novel's use...

Timeline

By 29 August 1846: Cecilia Tilley (a daughter of Frances Trollope,...

Women writers item

By 29 August 1846

Cecilia Tilley (a daughter of Frances Trollope , who died two years later, at thirty-one, of tuberculosis) published Chollerton: a tale of our times, as by a Lady.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
983 (1846): 885-6
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

Texts

Mitford, Mary Russell. Letters of Mary Russell Mitford, Second Series. Editor Chorley, Henry Fothergill, R. Bentley and Son, 1872, 2 vols.
Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley, 1836, 2 vols.
Chorley, Henry Fothergill, and Achille Collas. The Authors of England. Charles Tilt, 1838.
Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Thirty Years’ Musical Recollections. Hurst and Blackett, 1862, 2 vols.