Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Henry Fothergill Chorley
Standard Name: Chorley, Henry Fothergill
Used Form: H. F. Chorley
Used Form: Henry F. Chorley
Connections
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Literary responses | Adelaide Procter | Athenæum reviewer H. F. Chorley
, sandwiching his discussion of A Chaplet of Verses between those of two other works by earnest women, expressed some annoyance at its assured and zealous sectarianism and regretted... |
Literary responses | Emily Brontë | This bowdlerized version of EB
's novel and her poetry circulated widely and received many reviews. H. F. Chorley
in the Athenæum pronounced the re-publication of the two novels an illustration of English female genius... |
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 | Elizabeth Gaskell | Most reviews of North and South were positive, athough some criticized EG
for what they saw as inaccuracies in her portrayal of northern industrial life. Chorley
in the Athenæum called this one of the best... |
Occupation | Adelaide Kemble | AK
undertook a singing tour of France and Germany with family and friends, including Fanny Kemble
, Mary Anne Thackeray
and Henry Chorley
. Liszt
joined them in Germany. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray, 1919. 54 |
Occupation | Adelaide Kemble | AK
's stature as a singer was evaluated shortly after her retirement by Anna Jameson
in her Memoirs and Essays, 1846, and twenty years after it by Henry Chorley
in his Thirty Years' Musical... |
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, 1961. 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... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Gaskell | While researching her biography of Charlotte Brontë
, EG
was warned by Henry Chorley
that unpublished letters were protected by copyright, and that she should seek permission from the executors. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 403 |
Reception | Caroline Norton | H. F. Chorley
, reviewing for the Athenæum, considered this the most melancholy tale he could recall, and argued that it was not wholesome or an accurate depiction of nature to argue via fiction... |
Reception | Anna Eliza Bray | Henry Fothergill Chorley
's Athenæum review observed that the heaviness of Mrs. Bray's style would not oppress her young as much as her adult readers, adding that some of the legends are quaint and marvellous... |
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... |
Textual Features | Anna Eliza Bray | Henry Fothergill Chorley
's review celebrated the book's illustrations, declaring that a more beautiful volume than this is not often issued. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1261 (1851): 1381 The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. |
Textual Production | Felicia Hemans | The year after FH
died, Rose Lawrence
, an old friend, published The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems, And Recollections of Mrs. Hemans, and H. F. Chorley
published Memorials of... |
Textual Production | Felicia Hemans | FH
also published in many of the gift books or literary annuals that became popular from the later 1820s: the Amulet, the Book of Beauty, Christmas Box, the English Annual, the... |
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