John Gibson Lockhart

After reading the unpublished manuscript, Lockhart wrote: It seems to me one of the most admirable specimens of review-writing I ever met with—full of sense and taste, equally instructive and interesting.

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.

Lockhart praised this article, writing: Mr Croker pronounces it charming both for the sense and pleasantry. I scarcely think he ever said a word in favour of any other article not his own.

The volume firmly established CC 's reputation as a gifted and talented writer. She was delighted when John Gibson Lockhart wrote (under the impression that he was addressing a man) that he was deeply impressed...

Editor John Gibson Lockhart (who became a close friend) invited her to write for the periodical after being introduced to her work by John Murray . She was only the second woman to publish in...

John Gibson Lockhart managed ME 's dealings about this book with the publisher, Bentley : Bentley was to buy the first edition only, not the continuing copyright, and was to increase the payment if he...

From her youth, HM tended to be regarded as a formidable person. Those describing her reached for martial metaphors. During her lifetime her works aroused intense admiration and opposition. She was one of the twenty-four...

It is clear from her correspondence with Joanna Baillie how much Margaret Holford the younger longed for success, and how much persistent energy she devoted to pursuing it. When in 1837-8 John Gibson Lockhart published...

LLS 's surviving letters to family and friends have been published in scattered fragments and in several collections. The early publications took place in Edinburgh, as if the Scottish side of her inheritance commanded...

That year CG met the Vicomte Théodore Claude Henri de Villemarqué, a young Breton commissioned by a French cultural society to investigate the Welsh language and its relationship to Breton. She found him clever...

The subplot of Blue Belles features a current literary sensation, whose overnight success secures him in the course of a single month 376 invitations to dinner, 120 requests for personal inscriptions, 70 for autographs, and...

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...

ME (with all her writing about Ireland long behind her) visited Killarney in County Kerry with Sir Walter Scott and J. G. Lockhart .