Francis, Lord Jeffrey

Standard Name: Jeffrey, Francis,,, Lord

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Literary responses Joanna Baillie
The Critical Review called this volume a work of such great and original merit,
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
2d ser. 37: 201
though it also said that JB 's initial success had been fed by her anonymity. Anna Letitia Barbauld
Literary responses Joanna Baillie
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...
Literary responses Felicia Hemans
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...
Publishing Mary Bryan
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.
Bryan, Mary, and Jonathan Wordsworth. Sonnets and Metrical Tales 1815. Woodstock Books.
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Soon afterwards, in 1818, she sent Sir Walter Scott
Reception Catherine Fanshawe
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.
Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
1: 270
Reception Anne Grant
The pension was granted following the petition of Sir Walter Scott (who had praised her writing at the end of Waverley),
Perkins, Pamela. “Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy”. Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, edited by Emma Clery et al., Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29-43.
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Francis Jeffrey , Henry Mackenzie , and others. At first AG rejected...
Textual Production Felicia Hemans
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...
Travel Sara Coleridge
In her years growing up, SC frequently visited the William WordsworthWordsworth family at Rydal Mount.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press.
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Her father's home was frequented by notable guests including Francis Jeffrey , Thomas De Quincey , Charles Lamb ,...
Travel Felicia Hemans
FH took the first of two trips to Scotland, where she made a visit like an old familiar friend
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315.
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with Sir Walter Scott . She also met Francis Jeffrey , who significantly shaped...
Wealth and Poverty Dorothea Primrose Campbell
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

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