Dugald Stewart

In Edinburgh she met Professor Dugald Stewart , his wife Helen , and the writer Elizabeth Hamilton , with whom she developed a friendship continued by correspondence. Another writer whom she befriended closer to home was Mary Leadbeater .

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. In Edinburgh in 1803...

In Richmond and elsewhere MC met emigrés fleeing the French Revolution. She also met a number of women who wrote: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , Mary and Agnes Berry , and Anne Damer . In...

She was capable of equally strong feeling in other contexts, such as her passionate desire for success as a poet. Having written about this ambition to the literary historian Isaac D'Israeli and the philosopher Dugald Stewart

There she electrified a social gathering at the house of Dugald Stewart by her reading of William Taylor 's still unpublished translation of Bürger 's highly emotional Lenore.

Even before her first publication the future CC had sent specimens of her poetry, under the name of George Ferrol or P. Ferrol, to literary men and potential patrons. But Isaac D'Israeli , Dugald Stewart

EH dedicated this work to the Scottish clergyman and philosopher Archibald Alison . Its full title was A Series of Popular Essays, Illustrative of Principles Essentially Connected with the Improvement of the Understanding, the Imagination...

In 1823 and 1827 respectively, CC approached the literary historian Isaac D'Israeli and the philosopher Dugald Stewart about her burning desire to be a poet. D'Israeli (to whom she had used a masculine pseudonym) replied...

MJ 's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb , but also Dugald Stewart and Henry Brougham ), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice against...