Henry Fothergill Chorley

The Athenæum's reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley , wrote that after Mary Russell Mitford 's characterization of Cromwell in her Charles the First, we know not who has conceived of the great General better...

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...

The Athenæum's H. F. Chorley lamented that the publication of GA 's early productions was exposing to view the eager, romantic, generous girl making experiments on subjects of different classes and periods,—writing in search...

Henry Fothergill Chorley , reviewing the novel for the Athenæum, found Grantley Manorhaunted by the intertextual spectre of Jane Austen 's Emma; he also drew parallels with Frances Burney 's Cecilia...

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

A Commonplace Book was reviewed by the Literary Gazette, the Athenæum (by Henry Fothergill Chorley ), The Spectator and Gentleman's Magazine.Elizabeth Gaskell pronounced herself in a letter to ABJ delighted with its graceful suggestive wisdom.

In his review in the Athenæum, Henry Fothergill Chorley admitted that the novel wasnot wholly devoid of attraction and that it contained a tolerably lively picture of the court of Louis Quatorze ...

In Rose LeblancHenry Fothergill Chorley judged that GF 's power, which was considerable in the early days of her authorship, appears to have been calmed down, and gently washed out of her. He found...

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...

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...

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...

Like the first, this second reviewer (probably H. F. Chorley ) found Agnes Grey both less objectionable and less powerful than Wuthering Heights. Many reviews concentrated wholly or solely on Emily's novel. The...

This book brought AM great success, and she continued throughout her career to identify herself as its author. Henry Fothergill Chorley , reviewing it for the Athenæum two years after publication, said mutedly that it...

The Athenæum's Henry Fothergill Chorley said that we have met with few pictures of life among the working classes at once so forcible and so fair as Mary Barton.He compared the...

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...