Paul, Lissa. The Children’s Book Business. Routledge, 2011.
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Horace Walpole
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Standard Name: Walpole, Horace
Used Form: Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford
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| Literary responses | Teresia Constantia Phillips | The Thais of the title was an ancient courtesan. Historian Kathleen Wilson
says that in JamaicaTCP
acquired the nickname of The Black Widow in allusion to her many marriages and her supposedly destructive effect... |
| Literary responses | Mary Wollstonecraft | The Vindication provoked a storm of comment and replies, in reviews (the Monthly was respectful both of her project and its execution, but the Critical, though its review was long and detailed, was scathingly... |
| Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Frances Burney
thought this the best of all Barbauld's poems. Hannah More
wrote to thank ALB
for writing so well on a subject so near her, More's heart, |
| Literary responses | Ellis Cornelia Knight | In a letter to Lady Upper Ossory
on October 14, 1792, Walpole
noted that There is so much learning and good sense well digested . . . that it is impossible not to admire the... |
| Literary responses | Anna Miller | Her publisher, Charles Dilly
, praised the work and its philanthropic author for animated warmth so honestly avowed. Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009. 195 |
| Literary responses | Melesina Trench | Before publishing MT
's private writings, her son showed them to Edward FitzGerald
. Fitzgerald responded positively, judging them the equal of published letters by the writers Horace Walpole
and Robert Southey
. He showed... |
| Literary responses | Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny | Her prayers became publicly well-known through Thomas Bentley
's printing of fifty of them, some long, in his Monument of Matrones in 1582 under the title The Praiers made by the right Honourable Ladie Frances... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan | Years before this Walpole
had remarked to his friend Horace Mann
that MBCL
had something of a turn towards poetry. Walpole, Horace. The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence. Editor Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon, Yale edition, Yale University Press, 1937–1983, 48 vols. 25: 475 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hervey | The Critical Review once again praised the style and characters. It judged the novel too long and its plot too complicated, but that the whole was certainly superior to the majority of flimsy publications of... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Though CM
's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray
and Horace Walpole
thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we... |
| Literary responses | Hannah More | |
| Literary responses | Clara Reeve | This time a review (again dealing in imagination with a man) quoted from the preface, and pronounced: This is no common novel—it may, in some respects, claim a place upon the same shelf with The... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | As she had for her earlier volumes, CM
got for this one the Critical's lead review of the month. The journal was still prepared to accept her critical attitude towards the monarchy: Our author... |
| Literary responses | Hannah More | The Critical Review (to which the author's identity was no secret) said of it that HM
's narrative gift was no contemptible endowment, and that her gaiety of humour was pleasing. It did, however... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | The Monthly Review gave CM
's modern history a long, respectful notice in several issues, praising her manly energy. Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths. 58 (1778): 111 |
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