Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, No. 2, pp. 213 - 28.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Critic Linda H. Peterson
places the Autobiography as a response to the domestic memoir generally and to the domestication of the religious and intellectual in the memoirs of various women including Charlotte Tonna
. Instead... |
Literary responses | Mary Cholmondeley | Most literary reviews were positive, some comparing MC
to Charlotte Brontë
or George Eliot
; The Spectator called the novel brilliant and exhilarating. Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, No. 2, pp. 213 - 28. 214 |
Publishing | Harriet Martineau | Chapman used her own memorials (based, she claimed, on full access to HM
's private and public papers, personal letters, and her own and others' first-hand knowledge) to flesh out the account in the manuscript... |
Reception | L. E. L. | Although LEL died on the cusp of the Victorian period, she was widely read in its early years, and was invoked explicitly by many other writers who followed her, including women poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Textual Features | Mary Cholmondeley | Thematically, Red Pottage examines female friendship, the function of literature, the role of women, and hypocrisy both religious and social. Critic Linda H. Peterson
, writing about women's choices and the novel, claims that Red... |
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