Henry Fothergill Chorley

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...

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 ...

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...

This first poetic attempt was well received.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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

This was reviewed for the Athenæum by Henry Fothergill Chorley .

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...

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...

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

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...