Athenæum. J. Lection.
979 (1846): 789
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Literary responses | Harriet Smythies | 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. Athenæum. J. Lection. 979 (1846): 789 |
Literary responses | Fanny Fern | 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... |
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 | Grace Aguilar | This work met with good reception and went through thirty-six editions or reprints by 1881. 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. |
Literary responses | Charlotte Maria Tucker | Grudgingly, Henry Fothergill Chorley
in the Athenæum said this book was clearly meant for the gentler sex, and that for readers willing to judge it as a religious nouvellette, the author has not succeeded... |
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 | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | 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
... |
Literary responses | Grace Aguilar | 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... |
Literary responses | Georgiana Fullerton | 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... |
Literary responses | Augusta Webster | This first poetic attempt was well received. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 333 |
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 | Georgiana Fullerton | 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... |
Literary responses | Jane Williams | Henry Fothergill Chorley
was dismissive of these volumes in reviewing for the Athenæum. He commented that Price's labours and studies might have been valuable had he devoted them to any wider field of tillage... |
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... |
Literary responses | Anne Manning | 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... |
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