Held responsible by some for the early death of John Keats and by others for the duel in which London Magazine editor John Scott was killed, John Gibson Lockhart was so effective a satirist, his scorn...
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When Sir Walter Scott wrote that "Lockhart will blaze," he noted the unusual promise that John Gibson Lockhart, his son-in-law, brought to the Scottish literary scene. Entering Edinburgh literary soci...
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"Lockhart ... is the second greatest ... of all British biographers," claimed Harold Nicolson in The Development of English Biography (1928). John Gibson Lockhart and his biography of Sir Walter Scott...
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John Gibson Lockhart