qtd. in
Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985.
71
Francis Lord Jeffrey
Standard Name: Jeffrey, Francis,,, Lord
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Sarah Austin | Francis Jeffrey
, literary critic of the Edinburgh Review, praised the translation as deserving a fair measure of fame. qtd. in Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
| Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | 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. Feminist Companion Archive. |
| 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, 2010. 99 |
| 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, 5 series. 2d ser. 37: 201 |
| 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... |
| 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, 1996. 99n |
| 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, 1844, 3 vols. 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, 2002, pp. 29-43. 32 |
| 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, 1989. 24 |
| Travel | Felicia Hemans | FH
took the first of two trips to Scotland, where she made a visit like an old familiar friend qtd. in Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315. 180 |
| 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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