Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
215, 420
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Travel | Maria Edgeworth | ME
(with all her writing about Ireland long behind her) visited Killarney in County Kerry with Sir Walter Scott
and J. G. Lockhart
. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 215, 420 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Trollope | The subplot of Blue Belles features a current literary sensation, whose overnight success secures him in the course of a single month 376 invitations to dinner, 120 requests for personal inscriptions, 70 for autographs, and... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Guest | That year CG
met the |
Textual Production | Lady Louisa Stuart | LLS
's surviving letters to family and friends have been published in scattered fragments and in several collections. The early publications took place in Edinburgh, as if the Scottish side of her inheritance commanded... |
Reception | Margaret Holford | It is clear from her correspondence with Joanna Baillie how much Margaret Holford the younger longed for success, and how much persistent energy she devoted to pursuing it. When in 1837-8 John Gibson Lockhart
published... |
Reception | Hannah More | From her youth, HM
tended to be regarded as a formidable person. Those describing her reached for martial metaphors. During her lifetime her works aroused intense admiration and opposition. She was one of the twenty-four... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Rigby | Editor John Gibson Lockhart
(who became a close friend) invited her to write for the periodical after being introduced to her work by John Murray
. She was only the second woman to publish in... |
Publishing | Maria Edgeworth | |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Rigby | After reading the unpublished manuscript, Lockhart
wrote: It seems to me one of the most admirable specimens of review-writing I ever met with—full of sense and taste, equally instructive and interesting. Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages. 1: 29 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Rigby | Lockhart
praised this article, writing: Mr Croker
pronounces it charming both for the sense and pleasantry. I scarcely think he ever said a word in favour of any other article not his own. Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages. 1: 165 |
Literary responses | Sir Walter Scott | Lady Louisa Stuart
sent a detailed letter of appreciative criticism soon after publication, which Scott's biographer J. G. Lockhart
admired enough to publish it in full. |
Literary responses | Anna Seward | Scott
in his introduction gave a vivid description of AS
's good looks (even in old age), especially the poetical attributes of dark, flashing eyes and a melodious voice. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 253-4 |
Literary responses | Lady Louisa Stuart | J. G. Lockhart
admired LLS
's letter on The Heart of Mid-Lothian so much that he included much of its text in his The Life of Sir Walter Scott, finding her comments on the... |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Political economy was controversial in itself, and the potentially scandalous exposition by a young unmarried female of matters having to do with population control provided grist for the mills of hostile reviewers. HM
recollected hearing... |
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