John Gibson Lockhart

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.

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. The Critical Review said that...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

ME (with all her writing about Ireland long behind her) visited Killarney in County Kerry with Sir Walter Scott and J. G. Lockhart .