Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Eliza Lynn Linton | Athenæum reviewer H. F. Chorley
felt that the author was now raving like a pagan Pythoness—the female oracle whose pronouncements were not expected to be comprehensible: There is a positive untruth to the very... |
Literary responses | Eliza Lynn Linton | Henry Chorley
, the reviewer on this occasion for the Athenæum, thought the stories ghastly in the extreme, admirably calculated to keep readers awake at night. Yet he felt the gathering of this terrible... |
Publishing | Jane Loudon | JL
's last number of The Ladies' Companion: At Home and Abroad appeared: the final issue before the publishers, Bradbury and Evans
, forcibly replaced her as editor against her will, with Henry F. Chorley
. Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life. 121 |
Publishing | Jane Loudon | She had not been in her position long, though, when Evans
made her two successive disturbing visits. On the first he told her that her journal's circulation figures were disappointing, and that she would be... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Manning | There was a precedent for this kind of faux-historical document (which the Athenæum reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley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 | 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... |
Literary responses | Anne Marsh | The Athenæum, which had reported favourably after its peep at the first instalment of Mount Sorel, Athenæum. J. Lection. 897 (1845):14 |
Literary responses | Anne Marsh | 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... |
Literary responses | Anne Marsh | Like most of her output around this time, it was extremely well reviewed for the Athenæum by Henry Fothergill Chorley
, and other journals were just as gratifying. |
Literary responses | Anne Marsh | Henry Fothergill Chorley
in the Athenæum, though as appreciative as ever of AM
's scene-setting and characterization, of her well-known power, and . . . her well-known style, had several grumbles. He complained that... |
Textual Features | Anne Marsh | The couple are married; they have two sons, one of whom further develops the reader's involvement with Randal Langford by his steady devotion to his father. Nevertheless, the working out of the denouement was found... |
Literary responses | Anne Marsh | Chorley
's Athenæum review is remarkable for two things: for the vehemence with which he praised the novel's plotting and the climactic scene of preparations for the wedding (which he quoted at length, only regretting... |
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 | 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 |
Textual Production | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
undertook for Henry Chorley
to provide a series of Readings of Poetry, Old and New: selected extracts with her commentary. 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: 301 |
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