Francis Lord Jeffrey

Despite her relative poverty, MB moved easily in circles of the great and the good. Her closest friends were Anne Damer (whose death in 1828 was a terrible loss), Joanna Baillie (whom in 1831 she...

JM probably knew her husband's friends Edward Jenner and William Hyde Wollaston ; she certainly knew and corresponded with John Yelloy . She was a friend on her own account of Margaret Bryan ,

In 1838, HM met the British diplomat David Urquhart , who was known for his championship of Turkey against Russia. Although she recorded her dislike for his social egotism and misogynistic opinions, his hatred and...

CC had already become a friend of Sydney Smith and his family. In Edinburgh she became friendly with members of various intellectual circles, including astronomer John Pringle Nichol , chemist Samuel Brown , artist David Scott

TM had a talent for beginning friendships under bizarre circumstances. Francis Jeffrey 's review of Moore's anti-American Epistles, Odes, and other Poems (1806) sparked a famous (short-lived) feud between the two men. Jeffrey's negative review...

CF 's friends included other highly literate middle-class women such as Mary Berry and Anne Grant in Edinburgh. (Her friendship with Grant was maintained entirely by correspondence—she and her sisters hoped to visit Edinburgh in...

She became a noted figure in Edinburgh literary and social circles. Among her friends were Lady Charlotte Campbell (later Bury) ,Lord Jeffrey , Sir Walter Scott , Henry Mackenzie , and other literati...

While in Wales they visited Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby (the ladies of Llangollen) and in the Lakes they stayed with Elizabeth Smith and her family. In Edinburgh in 1803...

While in Scotland she met not only Scott and Jeffrey , she met in person her publisher William Blackwood , writer Anne Grant , critic John Wilson , and sculptor Angus Fletcher .

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.

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...

Francis Jeffrey 's notice in the Edinburgh Review was a classic of damning by faint praise: he found most of the poems very decently written but extremely deficient in fire and animation.Anne Grant

The Critical gave this book a long and admiring review. It was not a little delighted with LH —though it did not think her impartial but full of prejudices (refusing...

The influential reviewer Francis Jeffrey later recalled finding this a work of much promise and originality. A somewhat belated review in The Ladies' Monthly Museum divulged the fact that DPC was the Ora whose contributions...

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