Identifier: 27

Title of the Review/Article: 

Spanish Novels. (Article no. II)

Periodical (dates): The Westminster Review (1824-1914)
Volume: 6
Number: 12
Date: 1826 (October)
Place of publication: London
Pages: 278-303
Editor: John Bowring (1792-1872)
Author (Reviewer): Antonio Alcalá Galiano (1789-1865)
Book (Reviewed):

Valentín de Llanos Gutiérrez. Don Esteban; or, Memoirs of a Spaniard, 3 vols. (London: Henry Colburn, 1825)

Valentín de Llanos Gutiérrez. Sandoval; or, The Freemason. A Spanish Tale, 3 vols. (London: Henry Colburn, 1826)

Valentín de Llanos Gutiérrez. Letter from a Spaniard (the Author of Don Esteban) to the Editor of the Quarterly Review (London: Henry Colburn, 1826)


Brief description:

Review of Valentín de Llanos’s novels Don Esteban (1825) and Sandoval (1826), written in response to Blanco’s review of Don Esteban in the Quarterly Review. It also discusses Llanos’s letter to the editor of the Quarterly Review, where he refutes Blanco’s claims.


Spanish authors mentioned:

Valentín de Llanos Gutiérrez (1795-1885)
Joseph Blanco White (1775-1841)
Antonio Puigblanc (1775-1840)
Juan Antonio Llorente (1756-1823)
Juan Bautista Arriaza (1770-1837)
Juan de Mena (1411-1456)


Spanish works mentioned:

Don Esteban; or, Memoirs of a Spaniard (Valentín de Llanos, 1825)

Sandoval; or, The Freemason (Valentín de Llanos, 1826)

Letters from Spain by Don Leucadio Doblado (Blanco White, 1822)

Historia del famoso predicador fray Gerundio de Campazas (José Francisco de Isla y Rojo, also Father Isla, 1758)

Practical and Internal Evidence against Catholicism (Blanco White, 1825)


Other relevant Spanish names mentioned:

Charles IV of Spain (1748-1819)

Ferdinand VII of Spain (1784-1833)

Charles II of Spain (1661-1700)

Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Cardinal Cisneros (1436-1517)

Evaristo Fernández de San Miguel (1785-1862)

Francisco Javier de Elio (1767-1822)

Joaquín Vidal (d.1819)

Juan Antonio Olavarrieta, pseud. José Joaquín de Clararrosa (1763-1822)


Spanish place names:

Madrid

Valladolid

Calatayud

Cádiz

Castile


References to Spanish relevant historic events:

Peninsular War (1808-1814)

Spanish Revolution of 1820

Liberal Triennium (1820-1823)

Spanish Constitution (1812)

Revolt of the Comuneros (1520-1522)


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