The Scottish writer and editor, John Gibson Lockhart, published his first full attempt at a biography of his late father-in-law in 1837. This is Volume 6 of a new reprint of that Seven Volume edition. Lockhart starts with a note to explain that his original project of six volumes has now expanded to seven. This one covers just two years, 1825 and 1826, but there is much to include in order to cover the richness of Scott's personal, writing and business lives. Key events include an excursion to Ireland; Scott beginning to keep a diary; commercial concerns culminating in the 'Catastrophe of the Three Houses of Hurst and Robinson, Constable and Ballantyne' and its aftermath; the Letters of Malachi Malagrowther; the death of Charlotte - his companion for thirty years; and a journey to London and Paris. Published simultaneously w th this reprint is a volume bringing together the 1838 publication Refutation of the Mistatements and Calumnies contained in Mr Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart respecting The Messrs Ballantyne, Lockhart's response to 'The Ballantyne-Humbug' and the Ballantyne Trust's subsequent retort.
The Scottish writer and editor, John Gibson Lockhart, published his first full attempt at a biography of his late father-in-law in 1837. This is Volume 5 of a new reprint of that Seven Volume edition. It begins and ends at Abbotsford, from a time for entertainment and country pursuits in the autumn of 1820 to its 'slendour' at Christmas 1824 and the new year that followed - the latter events as told in the journal of one of the guests, Captain Basil Hall. Accounts of the death of John Ballantyne, and of Byron; the Coronation of George IV and his visit to Scotland; the publication of 'Mr Adolphus's Letters on the Authorship of Waverley', as well as insights into the Blair-Adam Club, the Royal Society of Literature and the Bannatyne Club; these all feature in Lockhart's portrayal of society life in Scotland and England and Scott's place within it. Published simultaneously w th this reprint is a volume bringing together the 1838 publication Refutation of the Mistatements and Calumnies contained in Mr Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart respecting The Messrs Ballantyne, Lockhart's response to 'The Ballantyne-Humbug' and the Ballantyne Trust's subsequent retort.
The Scottish writer and editor, John Gibson Lockhart, published his first full attempt at a biography of his late father-in-law in 1837. This is Volume 1 of a new reprint of that Seven Volume edition. The story begins with the 'Ashetiel fragment', autobiographical notes - written in 1808 and found in an old cabinet at Abbotsford - which tell of Scott's early life before his call to the Bar in July 1792. Lockhart follows this with his own 'Illustrations' of and reflections on Scott's history and character in this period of school, apprenticeship and study, plus early travel, debate and correspondence. He then sets his own pace for the story of 'literary anecdote and private history' - from courtship and marriage, to The Edinburgh Review, in the years 1793 to 1804. Published simultaneously w th this reprint is a volume bringing together the 1838 publication Refutation of the Mistatements and Calumnies contained in Mr Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart respecting The Messrs Ballantyne, Lockhart's response to 'The Ballantyne-Humbug' and the Ballantyne Trust's subsequent retort.
This is J. G. Lockhart's famous two volume Life of Sir Walter Scott, with a prefatory letter by J. R. Hope Scott. John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) was Sir Walter Scott's son-in-law and his biographer. Lockhart married Scott's daughter, Sophia, in 1820 and had the poet's letters, journals and personal papers in his possession upon Scott's death in 1832. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and Oxford. He was a classical scholar, a linguist and a lawyer. He wrote literary criticism, but he is known today for this memoir of Scott, which is widely considered second only to Boswell's biography of Johnson. Within these two volumes he provides meticulous details on the life and work of the great Scottish novelist.
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