John Gibson Lockhart

Standard Name: Lockhart, John Gibson
Used Form: J. G. Lockhart

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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...
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...
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...
Textual Production Charlotte Guest
That year CG met the Vicomte Théodore Claude Henri de Villemarqué, a young Breton commissioned by a French cultural society to investigate the Welsh language and its relationship to Breton. She found him clever...
Friends, Associates Anne Grant
Among AG 's acquaintances in her later years were Felicia Hemans and Thomas Campbell .
Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, pp. 237-96.
293
Among those who praised her acute mind and generous nature were Edward Topham , John Gibson Lockhart .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Gore
In an extraordinary passage near the end of the book, Cecil lists a number of people who might, if they could only work together, revolutionize the country.
Farrell, John P. “Toward a New History of Fiction: The Wolff Collection and the Example of Mrs. Gore”. The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, Vol.
37
, pp. 28-37.
36
The names he mentions include actual...
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
Friends, Associates Maria Edgeworth
ME formed warm friendships with Scott and his son-in-law J. G. Lockhart .
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
418-20
Publishing Maria Edgeworth
John Gibson Lockhart managed ME 's dealings about this book with the publisher, Bentley : Bentley was to buy the first edition only, not the continuing copyright, and was to increase the payment if he...
Literary responses Caroline Clive
The volume firmly established CC 's reputation as a gifted and talented writer. She was delighted when John Gibson Lockhart wrote (under the impression that he was addressing a man) that he was deeply impressed...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Eleanor Butler
They were outraged, and at once sought legal advice from Edmund Burke (who had experienced image problems of a not dissimilar kind).
Mavor, Elizabeth. The Ladies of Llangollen. Michael Joseph.
83-4
Brideoake, Fiona. “Keep Yourself in Your Own Persons, Where You Are: The Ladies of Llangollen and Queer Self-Fashioning”. 42nd ASECS Annual Meeting.
This episode was remarkable partly because such hostility was unusual. But not...
Fictionalization Lady Eleanor Butler
Among many less formal honours during the ladies' lifetimes, the most extraordinary was LEB 's award of a French, ancien régime, military medal: the Croix St Louis. It is shown in a famous portrait of...
Literary responses Joanna Baillie
The Chief Justice of Ceylon, Sir Alexander Johnstone , asked that two of JB 's last plays be translated into Singalese.One—The Bride, A Tragedy (published in summer 1828), had a Singalese subject.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
38 (1828): 602

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