James Ferrier
Standard Name: Ferrier, James
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susan Ferrier | The first important position of James Ferrier
, SF
's father, was as Writer to the Signet. Later he was appointed Principal Clerk of Session and became estate manager to the Duke of Argyll
... |
| Friends, Associates | Susan Ferrier | SF
and her father
made a visit, which was her first, to Walter Scott
at Ashistiel (his estate near Selkirk), when he was an eminent poet but not yet a novelist. They had stormy... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | But the anxiety evident in EBB
's preface about the reception of A Drama of Exile proved to be well founded. James Ferrier
, the Blackwood's reviewer, regretted that she had ventured to tread... |
| Literary responses | Susan Ferrier | Clavering
urged SF
not to alter (presumably not to tone down) her Lady McLaughlan portrait. The novel's immediate success was crucially boosted by the praise of Sir Walter Scott
. SF
read it aloud to... |
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