Francis, Lord Jeffrey

She had the offer of a job, but could not take it without a small cash infusion (probably for clothes). She applied purely on grounds of need, explicitly disclaiming literary merit; but Copland and Francis Jeffrey

In her years growing up, SC frequently visited the William WordsworthWordsworth family at Rydal Mount. Her father's home was frequented by notable guests including Francis Jeffrey , Thomas De Quincey , Charles Lamb ,...

FH took the first of two trips to Scotland, where she made a visit like an old familiar friend with Sir Walter Scott . She also met Francis Jeffrey , who significantly shaped...

Chorley (who included extracts from Hemans's letters) represents her as home-loving, but also as humorous and even mischievous: she could talk delicious nonsense, and well as inspired sense, and the utilitarian and the serious, who...

Anne Grant reported that Francis Jeffrey was much struck by a critique of Scott 's The Lady of the Lake (published months earlier) that CF had written in a letter to Grant.

The pension was granted following the petition of Sir Walter Scott (who had praised her writing at the end of Waverley),Francis Jeffrey , Henry Mackenzie , and others. At first AG rejected...

MB mentions in 1815 another work which she abandoned unfinished, on the grounds that some unnamed individuals might have had their feelings wounded by it. Soon afterwards, in 1818, she sent Sir Walter Scott

The collection was warmly reviewed by Francis Jeffrey in the Edinburgh Review.

Francis Jeffrey , literary critic of the Edinburgh Review, praised the translation as deserving a fair measure of fame.

This was the most popular of EH 's novels during her lifetime and long afterwards. Maria Edgeworth said its humour made it loved in Ireland. Francis Jeffrey reviewed it enthusiastically. By 1822 it had...

In general JB was criticised for lacking stage-craft—by Elizabeth Inchbald , for example, who must have been a good judge. It was said that her sonorously-voiced passions float unanchored; her comedies are too sweet. Baillie...

The Critical Review called this volume a work of such great and original merit, though it also said that JB 's initial success had been fed by her anonymity. Anna Letitia Barbauld

Francis Jeffrey in the Edinburgh Review, with continued animosity, called these plays as poor in incident and character, and as sluggish in their pace, as any that languish on the Continental stage, without their...

FH 's critical standing was high following the publication of Records of Woman. In October 1829 Francis Jeffrey published a laudatory and influential review of her poetry (ostensibly of the second editions of Records...

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.