William Enfield

For this her great support and encouragement was her brother (as he, rather than her husband , continued to be for her later publications). After he left home to pursue his studies, she sent him...

To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing...

HW 's story of her education is one of tyranny and resistance. Her worst beating from her father was incurred for obstinacy. Her elder sister Jane (called Diana in her memoirs) was supposed to teach...

The literary society of ALB 's time was, as biographer Betsy Rodgers notes, small and intimate. Writers all knew each other and kept in touch; those who did not live in London visited frequently...

The full title is The Female Reader: or, Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Best Writers, and Disposed under Proper Heads; for the Improvement of Young Women. MW said she had...

William Enfield quoted eight lines from Aikin (as Our Poetess) in dedicating his very popular anthology The Speaker, designed for the teaching of elocution, to the head of Warrington Academy . Her volume...

The Critical Review (which assumed the author to be male) defined his intention as to interest the imagination . . . by going into the marvellous, without transgressing the bounds of credibility.

The Critical made a basic misjudgement of The Abbey of St. Asaph (seemingly paying more attention to title than to content): it listed all the appurtenances of the Radcliffe an novel, with which it said...

Very few copies sold. The single review, recalled by JB as significant, was by the Rev. William Enfield , who wrote in the Monthly Review of November 1791, that the poems were simple, unexaggerated,...

Secresy had six reviews in 1795; EF wrote much later that they blamed the principles but commended the style & Imagination. The Critical Review was put off by the title but then moved to...

The Critical Review welcomed the first volume, but said this young genius was worthy of, or needed, further cultivation. When volume two rapidly followed, the journal felt that it was premature. It complained that the...

William Enfield in the Monthly Review deplored the injudicious rendering of the simple Bible story into meretricious ornaments of redundant metaphors and prosaic rhythmus [sic].

Antoinette was well reviewed. The Critical hailed a novel which neither endangered its readers' morals nor bored them with constant moralising. It dropped hints about the author's identity which amounted to puffing, saying it believed...

The Critical felt that this novel's power of raising feelings is but feeble, though at least such feelings would be on the side of virtue. William Enfield in the Monthly was much more positive...

The Critical Review reported that this book was written upon the same plan with the Adventures of a Guinea, which the writer has ingeniously imitated.(The reference is to Charles Johnstone 's...