Henry Fothergill 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.

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...

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...

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...

The Athenæum, which had reported favourably after its peep at the first instalment of Mount Sorel, gave the task of reviewing the complete work to Henry Fothergill Chorley . He felt...

Reviews of Cranford were positive, focusing on its charm and apparent simplicity. In the Athenæum, Henry Fothergill Chorley commended its touches of love and kindness, of simple self-sacrifice and of true womanly tenderness.

The Spectator greeted this collection effusively as without question the most promising of any first appearance in this century, except that of Keats , and the Saturday Review asserted, presumably with reference to Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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...

Initial reviews dwelt on Wuthering Heights as violent, cruel, gloomy, and excessive. It was inexpressibly painful, in the words of the Atlas, coarse according to the American Review, and...

Henry Fothergill Chorley in the Athenæum noted some reservations about the character of Lisa, and about the caricaturing of Mrs Danby, the shrewish miserly mother-in-law. But he confessed to being bewitched by a literary power...

Some reviews applauded the courage of Ruth and its author; others decried the subject-matter and language. Henry Fothergill Chorley 's Athenæum review was mixed: he admired some scenes for their honesty and naturalness, but was...

The Athenæum review of the second series, again by H. F. Chorley pronounced AP a real artist and this second instalment of poems to include some that must and will take rank among the most...

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...