Francis, Lord Jeffrey

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.

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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 ,...

FH took the first of two trips to Scotland, where she made a visit like an old familiar friend with Sir Walter Scott . She also met Francis Jeffrey , who significantly shaped...

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