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under Bryan Waller Procter
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | In the mid-1840s CN
acquired some new friends: biographer John Gibson Lockhart
, author Alexander William Kinglake
, rising young statesman Sidney Herbert
(direct descendant of the Countess of Pembroke
), and the intellectual translator... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
's father, Bryan Waller Procter
, was a successful London barrister. As Metropolitan Commissioner of Lunacy (from 1832 to 1861) Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Bryan Waller Procter |
Cultural formation | Jean Rhys | JR
's maternal great-grandfather, John Potter Lockhart
of Old Jewry, London, acquired the Genever Plantation in 1824. The plantation was at times prosperous, but problems occurred as a result of natural disasters and labour disruptions... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | She was welcomed into Edinburgh society, where she attended dinners, masked balls, and concerts. Through her London editors, John Murray
and John Gibson Lockhart
, she made literary connections. She knew Professor John Wilson
and... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | In London, she met theCarlyles
and John Gibson Lockhart
's daughter Charlotte
. She was also introduced to her future husband, Charles Eastlake
. She called on Agnes Strickland
and Maria Edgeworth
. Lord Shaftesbury |
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... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Rigby | After reading the unpublished manuscript, Lockhart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 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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