John Gibson Lockhart was born on 12 June 1794 at the manse of Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, into a world in which Scottish religious discipline, intellectual ambition, and political controversy were closely entwined. His father, the Reverend Dr John Lockhart, was minister of Cambusnethan parish, and his mother, Elizabeth Gibson, came from a family whose name Lockhart later adopted as his middle name. The future writer g…
“It is an old belief that on some solemn shore beyond the sphere of grief dear friends shall meet once more.”
Neighbourhood:
Romantic Poets, Scottish Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Spirituality, Longing
Elizabeth Craven, later Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach, was born Elizabeth Berkeley on 17 December 1750, probably at Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, and died in Naples on 13 January 1828. She lived with unusual visibility across the later eighteenth century and the opening decades of the nineteenth: aristocrat, wife and mother, theatrical author, poet, travel writer, correspondent, salon hostess, political obse…
“Beside curiosity, my friends will in these Letters see at least for some time where the real Lady Craven has been, and where she is to be found.”
Neighbourhood:
Devotional Poets, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Joy, Peace
