Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Henry Fothergill Chorley
Standard Name: Chorley, Henry Fothergill
Used Form: H. F. Chorley
Used Form: Henry F. Chorley
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Mary Ann Browne | MAB
had already met L. E. L.
and Mary Russell Mitford
. |
Literary responses | Anne Brontë | Like the first, this second reviewer (probably H. F. Chorley
) found Agnes Grey both less objectionable and less powerful than Wuthering Heights. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 217-9 |
Travel | Charlotte Brontë | She stayed at the house of handsome, unmarried George Smith
, of Smith, Elder, and Co.
, and his mother. The night before she left, they hosted a dinner for critics, including John Forster
and... |
Literary responses | Emily Brontë | Initial reviews dwelt on Wuthering Heights as violent, cruel, gloomy, and excessive. It was inexpressibly painful, Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 230 Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 236, 237 |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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 | 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... |
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