John Wilson

She was welcomed into Edinburgh society, where she attended dinners, masked balls, and concerts. Through her London editors, John Murray and John Gibson Lockhart , she made literary connections. She knew Professor John Wilson and...

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 .

CB 's dealings with Blackwood's led to a positive working relationship with editor John Wilson . She also maintained a long correspondence with Anna Eliza Bray and (in later years) a shorter one with poet...

There FB joined a literary circle whose members included the essayist John Wilson .

The Monthly Review, though anxious that publicity might not be good for the young poet or her talent, nevertheless estimated her talent highly, found in the title poem the genuine divine fire, and...

John Wilson made a slashing attack on this book in Blackwood's Magazine (3, 1818, 428–38) under the guise of amusement, in an article entitled Miss Spence and the Bagman. He presents her age...

Its appearance in Blackwood's was accompanied by critic John Wilson 's assertion, Scotland has her Baillie —Ireland her Tighe —England her Hemans.James Hogg , another contestant, praised the poem.

Our Village was praised by Christopher North (John Wilson) , Felicia Hemans , Elizabeth Barrett (who called Mitford here a sort of prose Crabbe in the sun and Harriet Martineau . MRM was especially gratified...

John Wilson 's review for Blackwood's, March 1837, deemed the title poem an autobiography of the childhood of Genius. A few years laterHenry Nelson Coleridge (husband of Sara Coleridge ), writing in...

In the introduction, AMH explains that she disliked the title chosen by her publisher Henry Colburn , because she felt it too closely resembled John Wilson 's Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life.

FH 's poems regularly appeared in periodicals, including The New Monthly Magazine from 1823. Publishing with Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from 1827, she asked William Blackwood to match her rate of more than a pound per...

With the assistance of her friend the author and journalist John Wilson , FB became a regular contributor to Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, publishing about seventy-eight articles there between 1846 and 1865. She also contributed...