William Enfield

The Critical Review cited West's preface approvingly and noted that she had fulfilled the intentions there set out. William Enfield in the Monthly Review professed himself delighted to see fictional talent successfully employed to efface...

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...

The Critical belatedly noted: She is now no longer in partnership, but sets up for herself. It approved the novel's morally didactic tone, its style, characters, and narrative, but warned that it...

ALB 's first hymn presents the world, as God creates and adorns it and pronounces it good, as a female body. She is also alert to female precedents. Her Verses on Mrs Rowe recall...

This issue was a continuing interest of Barbauld's. She had contributed five hymns, anonymously, to William Enfield 's Hymns for Public Worship (published at Warrington in 1772), and had made manuscript notes in the...

In summer 1789 she wrote a poem of complex feeling, An Epistle to Dr Enfield, which she said he was to throw into the Mersey on a farewell visit to Warrington. It too...

ALB collected and edited an anthology entitled The Female Speaker: she acknowledged the example of the popular The Speaker, edited by her friend William Enfield (which dated from 1774 and had quoted her...