Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Henry Fothergill Chorley
Standard Name: Chorley, Henry Fothergill
Used Form: H. F. Chorley
Used Form: Henry F. Chorley
Connections
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Literary responses | Georgiana Fullerton | In Rose LeblancHenry Fothergill Chorley
judged that GF
's power, which was considerable in the early days of her authorship, appears to have been calmed down, and gently washed out of her. He found... |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | The Athenæum (again in the person of Henry Chorley
, again reviewing ER
as a male author), said she was still improving. Despite the difficulties posed by handling such well-known material, in this novel the... |
Literary responses | Geraldine Jewsbury | The London Literary Gazette reported that the novel displayed considerable intellectual powers, a shrewd observance of character, and a general talent . . . . wanting only some polish to its roughness to raise it... |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | Henry Fothergill Chorley
, again reviewing ER
for the Athenæum and still convinced that she was a man, wrote that he retained in this foray into the unpleasantness of the modern world the same power... |
Occupation | Adelaide Kemble | AK
undertook a singing tour of France and Germany with family and friends, including Fanny Kemble
, Mary Anne Thackeray
and Henry Chorley
. Liszt
joined them in Germany. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray, 1919. 54 |
Occupation | Adelaide Kemble | AK
's stature as a singer was evaluated shortly after her retirement by Anna Jameson
in her Memoirs and Essays, 1846, and twenty years after it by Henry Chorley
in his Thirty Years' Musical... |
Publishing | Jane Loudon | JL
's last number of The Ladies' Companion: At Home and Abroad appeared: the final issue before the publishers, Bradbury and Evans
, forcibly replaced her as editor against her will, with Henry F. Chorley
. Howe, Bea. Lady with Green Fingers. Country Life, 1961. 121 |
Publishing | Jane Loudon | She had not been in her position long, though, when Evans
made her two successive disturbing visits. On the first he told her that her journal's circulation figures were disappointing, and that she would be... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Gaskell | While researching her biography of Charlotte Brontë
, EG
was warned by Henry Chorley
that unpublished letters were protected by copyright, and that she should seek permission from the executors. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 403 |
Reception | Caroline Norton | H. F. Chorley
, reviewing for the Athenæum, considered this the most melancholy tale he could recall, and argued that it was not wholesome or an accurate depiction of nature to argue via fiction... |
Reception | Anna Eliza Bray | Henry Fothergill Chorley
's Athenæum review observed that the heaviness of Mrs. Bray's style would not oppress her young as much as her adult readers, adding that some of the legends are quaint and marvellous... |
Textual Features | Anne Marsh | The couple are married; they have two sons, one of whom further develops the reader's involvement with Randal Langford by his steady devotion to his father. Nevertheless, the working out of the denouement was found... |
Textual Features | Anna Eliza Bray | Henry Fothergill Chorley
's review celebrated the book's illustrations, declaring that a more beautiful volume than this is not often issued. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1261 (1851): 1381 The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. |
Textual Production | Julia Kavanagh | Several commentators picked up the idea of influence by Jane Eyre. H. F. Chorley
in the Athenæum praised the work as JK
's best to date, for a sentiment, a tenderness, an old-world French... |
Textual Production | Felicia Hemans | The year after FH
died, Rose Lawrence
, an old friend, published The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems, And Recollections of Mrs. Hemans, and H. F. Chorley
published Memorials of... |
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