George Robert Gleig

Determined to be a writer, MJJ actively sought literary society. Her other literary friends included author and editor Samuel Laman Blanchard , dramatist James Robinson Planché , the Rev. George Robert Gleig , and Sir Walter Scott

By 1820 she was establishing herself as a writer and making arrangements with G. R. Gleig to contribute to the Library of General Knowledge. She expressed a desire to write a volume of Female...