qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 666
William Enfield
Standard Name: Enfield, William
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Ann Gomersall | Both the Monthly Review and Critical Review liked what they saw as Eleonora's simple plot, good morality, and Yorkshire humour. The Critical wished the author for the future the success which she so well... |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854. 123 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | Clara Reeve | 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. qtd. in Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 44 (1777): 154 |
| 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... |
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