Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley, 1852, 3 vols.
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Dedications | Mary Russell Mitford | She dedicated this work to Henry Chorley
, without whose persuasion, she said, she would not have written it. Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley, 1852, 3 vols. prelims Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 116: 197 |
Employer | Anna Mary Howitt | AMH
was already writing and drawing as a professional when Henry Chorley
, editor of the Ladies' Companion, commissioned her to go to Oberammergau and report on the passion play. On her return to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jessie Fothergill | Man of letters Henry Fothergill Chorley
was apparently connected to the family through JF
's father's paternal grandmother. Debenham, Helen. “’Almost always two sides to a question’: the novels of Jessie Fothergill”. Popular Victorian Women Writers, edited by Kay Boardman and Shirley Jones, Manchester University Press, 2004, pp. 66-89. 69 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Pardoe | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests that JP
hoped for a proposal of marriage from writer and reviewer Henry Fothergill Chorley
, which he never made. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Ogilvy | Over the years EO
developed friendships many people, a number of whom were involved with the community surrounding the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. Among these friends were Sir David Brewster
, Henry Chorley
,... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | While in London, ER
renewed old friendships and established new. She socialized with Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
, John Wilson Croker
, Henry Chorley
, Lord Lansdowne
, and Anna Jameson
(with whom she corresponded)... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Ann Browne | MAB
had already met L. E. L.
and Mary Russell Mitford
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | CC
's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright
was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting... |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | FH
was by this time a major literary attraction. Rose Lawrence
describes visiters [sic] and strangers, with letters of introduction,—sketchers and pencillers. Lawrence, Rose. The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems. G. and J. Robinson, etc. and John Murray, 1836. 342 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Manning | There was a precedent for this kind of faux-historical document (which the Athenæum reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley
, at once picked up on): Hannah Mary Rathbone
's The Diary of Lady Willoughby, 1844. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1215 (1851): 166 |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | The Athenæum's reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley
, wrote that after Mary Russell Mitford
's characterization of Cromwell
in her Charles the First, we know not who has conceived of the great General better... |
Literary responses | Mary Howitt | This must be the book which saddened Mary Russell Mitford
and Henry Chorley
when they judged that it turns out to be a dead failure. qtd. in Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols. 2: 175 |
Literary responses | Grace Aguilar | This work met with good reception and went through thirty-six editions or reprints by 1881. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | The Athenæum review of this novel was once more by Henry Chorley
. |
Literary responses | Catherine Hubback | H.F. Chorley
acidly commented in a comic review of the novel for the Athenæum: We are not pious enough to relish the tone of argument,—we are not irreligious enough to find the strained tones... |