Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi.
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Francis, Lord Jeffrey
Standard Name: Jeffrey, Francis,,, Lord
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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
, Marcet, Jane. “Introduction”. Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806, edited by Hazel Rossotti, AuthorHouse, p. i - xxi. iii, v n6 |
| 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 | 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... |
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