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George Chesney

  

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George Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the "Battle of Dorking" we should have little to complain of. It is wonderfully fine and powerful. Is it Laurence Oliphant? I can't think of anybody else with such a power of realism and wonderful command of the subject. It is vivid as Defoe.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant      Print: Book

  

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home at night and while he was still wrapt up in it was startled by his mother a most acute old lady (who had picked up the sheets as he let them fall) exclaiming "Surely George the Germans never were in England"'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: [?George] Simpson      Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs of aricle

  

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home at night and while he was still wrapt up in it was startled by his mother a most acute old lady (who had picked up the sheets as he let them fall) exclaiming "Surely George the Germans never were in England"'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Old Mrs Simpson      Manuscript: Sheet, Proofs of article

  

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'I am much mistaken if the appearance of the article 'The Battle of Dorking' does not mark an epoch in the history of the Magazine. Nothing so good has appeared for years. In your place, I should print it as a pamphlet, and circulate it everywhere.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: G.C. Swayne      Print: Serial / periodical

  

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'My dear Blackwood, I have just read the opening article of Maga, and I cannot go to sleep, or make an attempt thereat, till I write to tell you how deeply the article has impressed me, - I feel the picture will be with me day & night for a good while to come. The country owes you thanks: but we won't take warning, & may go down any day like Carthage & Venice. I presume the article is by Hamley. Compared with the momentousness of the theme & the noble spirit in which it is treated, I can hardly bring myself to speak of its exceeding excellence as a literary work, - but in truth, I don't think even De Foe could have beat it.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: R.H. Patterson      Print: Serial / periodical

  

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'My dear Willie, I am glad the Pall Mall has noticed the article & I approve of the Advert... We dined at Mount Melville last night. Col. Moncrieff & his wife - He was raving about the Battle of Dorking & never read anything in his life so good or like the reality...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Colonel Moncrieff      Print: Serial / periodical

  

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'I went down & saw Old Gleig who was on the same subject [the success of the "Battle of Dorking"]. He said too he had been reading lately the Review of Lothair & did not know which to admire most the review or the review of the reviewers. The reperusal [sic] had nearly put him into fits.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: "Old" Gleig      Print: Serial / periodical

  

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'My dear Sir, I have just read "The Battle of Dorking". It is undeniably clever - but mischievous. [...] Panic assays a great mistake [...]'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Brougham      Print: Serial / periodical

  

George T Chesney : Battle of Dorking

'"The Battle of Dorking" is written so well that I wd. gladly have written it, supposing that I had the knowledge. This I scarcely ever feel about anything I see in print.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Doddridge Blackmore      Print: Serial / periodical

  

George T Chesney : The Private Secretary

'My dear Blackwood [...] "The Private Secretary" picks itself up this month. I thought one or two of the recent numbers even scarcely up to mark."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Theodore Martin      Print: Serial / periodical

  

George T Chesney : The Private Secretary

'Gentlemen. I am the fourth generation of my family that have taken in Blackwood's Magazine; the back numbers bound form a handsome library of themselves. I regret most sincerely that in consequence of the story called "The Private Secretary" I am compelled to give it up. I never read such disgusting filth before, and am very sorry that such a high class (formerly) Magazine should have admitted such garbage into its columns.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Philips      Print: Serial / periodical

  

George T Chesney : The Private Secretary

'As for the Private Secretary, I can sympathize with both you & Chesney. As Editor, I should have [?] to print it as it is; as Author, - if I had written it, - I am shy of writing anything in that style - I should have been very proud of it. The fact is, though risque it is devilish well done; & the merit & the objections to it are that it is so sensuously suggestive as to be [??] than far harder language.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alex Innes Shand      Print: Serial / periodical

  

George T Chesney : The Private Secretary

We have been much interested all along in The Private Secretary.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Laszowska      Print: Serial / periodical

  

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