Francis Lord Jeffrey

Standard Name: Jeffrey, Francis,,, Lord

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Literary responses Anne Hunter
Francis Jeffrey 's notice in the Edinburgh Review was a classic of damning by faint praise: he found most of the poems very decently written but extremely deficient in fire and animation.
qtd. in
Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009.
67
Anne Grant
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, 5 series.
3d ser. 10 (1807): 87
with LH —though it did not think her impartial but full of prejudices (refusing...
Literary responses Dorothea Primrose Campbell
The influential reviewer Francis Jeffrey later recalled finding this a work of much promise and originality.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
A somewhat belated review in The Ladies' Monthly Museum divulged the fact that DPC was the Ora whose contributions...
Literary responses Maria Edgeworth
The collection was warmly reviewed by Francis Jeffrey in the Edinburgh Review.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
339-40
Publishing Mary Bryan
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.
Bryan, Mary, and Jonathan Wordsworth. Sonnets and Metrical Tales 1815. Woodstock Books, 1996.
99n
Soon afterwards, in 1818, she sent Sir Walter Scott
Reception Catherine Fanshawe
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.
Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, 3 vols.
1: 270
Reception Anne Grant
The pension was granted following the petition of Sir Walter Scott (who had praised her writing at the end of Waverley),
Perkins, Pamela. “Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy”. Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, edited by Emma Clery et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, pp. 29-43.
32
Francis Jeffrey , Henry Mackenzie , and others. At first AG rejected...
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...
Travel Felicia Hemans
FH took the first of two trips to Scotland, where she made a visit like an old familiar friend
qtd. in
Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315.
180
with Sir Walter Scott . She also met Francis Jeffrey , who significantly shaped...
Travel Sara Coleridge
In her years growing up, SC frequently visited the William WordsworthWordsworth family at Rydal Mount.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
24
Her father's home was frequented by notable guests including Francis Jeffrey , Thomas De Quincey , Charles Lamb ,...
Wealth and Poverty Dorothea Primrose Campbell
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

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