William Enfield

Standard Name: Enfield, William

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Literary responses Anne Burke
The Critical Review, though it found the story very confused, nevertheless thought this novel had considerable merit, and found the style easy and correct.
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 666
William Enfield in the Monthly agreed that it...
Literary responses Charlotte Smith
Again the Critical Review was lukewarm, while Enfield in the Monthly praised the plot, characters, and CS 's digressive reflections.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 626-7
A passage on the slave trade from early in the novel is included...
Literary responses Ann Gomersall
Again the Critical Review enjoyed AG 's humour, if not her plotting. It supposed her to be influenced by George Lillo 's bourgeois tragedy The London Merchant (having in mind, no doubt, the vindication of...
Literary responses Mary Charlton
This novel, although it seems not to have been remembered in the course of MC 's later career, received three lengthy reviews in serious periodicals. William Enfield in the Monthly, quoted above, said he...
Literary responses Charlotte Smith
Reviewers were more approving than previously of CS 's politics, but began to complain of her accusatory fictionalising of the financial details of her own situation.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
226
The Critical argued that such personal appeals were...
Literary responses Susannah Gunning
SG 's new notoriety helped her popularity as a writer. The Gentleman's Magazine found Anecdotes to be the production of an elegant and accomplished mind, though it complained of printer's errors and errors in French...
Literary responses Maria Susanna Cooper
The Critical Review welcomed this novel because it was not the work of a mercenary (throwing light on the continued prejudice against writing as a trade or profession), and said it was well calculated to...
Literary responses Mary Martha Sherwood
Sherwood's father found The Traditions, correctly she said, grounded on high and chivalrous feeling, and ignorance of life.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854.
122
MMS said later that it was well-written for a seventeen-year-old.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854.
123
It received a good...
Literary responses Margaret Holford
This novel was somewhat condescendingly noticed in the Critical Review as artless, an interesting little story, related in a pleasing manner, though vulnerable to various criticisms. William Enfield in the Monthly expressed indulgence towards...
Literary responses Maria Susanna Cooper
The Critical Review announced that MSChas executed her task with taste and judgement.
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 237
Enfield 's Monthly notice was much longer and more appreciative, praising the story, style, characters, and catastrophe (that is...
Literary responses Regina Maria Roche
The Critical Review thought that this novel, if possibly amusing, was definitely forgettable.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 596-7
William Enfield in the Monthly found it natural, amusing, and romantic: the work was above contempt even though it had...
Literary responses Margaret Holford
William Enfield , writing in the Monthly Review, found the narrative clumsily handled here, with the subplot hanging like a dead weight on the main story, and the characters, sentiments, and language alike unremarkable.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 615
Literary responses Mary Robinson
MR 's daughter says the first edition sold out in a single day. Five more impressions followed. Reviewers were less keen. Though William Enfield in the Monthly Review praised the novel's richness of language and...
Literary responses Isabella Kelly
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...
Literary responses Joanna Baillie
Very few copies sold.
Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25.
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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,...

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