Francis, Lord Jeffrey

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

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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 ,...

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

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

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.

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...

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...