ABSTRACT
Byron, Werner (1822); review by? William Maginn, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, XII (Dec. 1822), 710-719. Most of the “Odoherty” contributions were the work of Maginn, the chief Irishman in the Blackwood’s group, but some attribute this review to Lockhart. “Mother Morgan” (p. 710) is Lady Morgan — formerly the Irish novelist Sydney Owenson — who had published accounts of her travels in France and in Italy. The “Council of Ten” allusion (p. 710) is more obscure, but apparently refers to the intimates of John Murray’s Quarterly Review circle — Gifford, Croker, Milman, J. T. Coleridge, Barrow, Frere, possibly Francis Cohen (later Palgrave), Isaac D’lsraeli, or Southey, and two or three others. Michael Scott (p. 711), the famous astrologer to the Emperor Frederick II (1194-1250), figures in border legends and in Scott’s Lay of the Last Minstrel. Daniel Terry (1780-1829), actor, playwright, and friend of Scott, wrote dramatic pieces based on Scott’s novels. The author of Waverley, usually referred to as “the Great Unknown,” is here by the Edinburgh circle called the Great Known (p. 713).
