Marcet, Jane. “Introduction”. Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806, edited by Hazel Rossotti, AuthorHouse, p. i - xxi.
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Francis, Lord Jeffrey
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Thomas Moore | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Marcet | 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
, |
| Literary responses | Lucy Hutchinson | The Critical gave this book a long and admiring review. It was not a little delighted Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3d ser. 10 (1807): 87 |
| 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. 180 |
| Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | 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
. Lawrence, Rose. The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems. G. and J. Robinson, etc. and John Murray. 347 Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 201 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hamilton | 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. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1: 152-4 Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 151 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Hamilton | 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. Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi. 99 |
| Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | She became a noted figure in Edinburgh literary and social circles. Among her friends were Lady Charlotte Campbell (later Bury)
, Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, pp. 237-96. 284 |
| 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. 32 |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Catherine Fanshawe | 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... |
| Literary responses | Maria Edgeworth | The collection was warmly reviewed by Francis Jeffrey
in the Edinburgh Review. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon. 339-40 |
Timeline
10 October 1802: The Edinburgh Review (founded by Henry Brougham...
Writing climate item
10 October 1802
The Edinburgh Review (founded by Henry Brougham
as a quarterly magazine of liberal views) published its first issue; it became a leading voice under editors like Francis Jeffrey
and Sydney Smith
, and lasted until...
August 1811: Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review...
Writing climate item
August 1811
Francis Jeffrey
wrote in the Edinburgh Review that for real force and originality of genius the age of Shakespeare
outranked various other famous ages in cultural history, including the Augustan.
Texts
Francis, Lord Jeffrey,. “Art. II. <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Records of Woman: with Other Poems</span>. By Felicia Hemans etc”. Edinburgh Review, Vol.
50
, pp. 32-47.