Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
1: 342
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
politics | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | When she settled with her husband in Dublin, Sydney Morgan became friendly with the United IrishmenHamilton Rowan
and the nationalist lawyer John Philpot Curran
. Her oppositional, liberty-loving opinions strengthened with her age. She... |
Textual Features | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | One of this novel's topics is concealed identity (which results in repeated changes of name for several central characters). As the story opens, two men land at Dublin (which they find desolate, poverty-struck by the... |
Cultural formation | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | Despite her Irish birth, she disliked and distanced herself from the Irish: Anna Maria Hall
's husband, Samuel Carter Hall
, reported her saying that she needed to fumigate her dining-room after entertaining Daniel O'Connell |
Textual Features | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | COCE
opens by making two points which might seem at variance with each other: the fascination which the past holds for later generations, and their ignorance of its discomforts and inconvenience. In a note she... |
politics | Mary Russell Mitford | In politics MRM
was known as a Foxite: that is, she supported the Whigs under Charles James Fox
, the more progressive opposition to the government. On 17 June 1814 she attended an Abolitionist meeting... |
politics | Mary Russell Mitford | When she wrote of her hatred of Enclosure Bills, and her pleasure when some glorious obstinate bumpkin of the true John Bull breed Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 1: 342 |
politics | Harriet Martineau | HM
represents herself in her Autobiography as brokering the successful repeal of the Corn Laws which took place on 26 June 1846, by mediating between Robert Peel
and Richard Cobden
. Histories of the repeal... |
Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | She wrote the last two-thirds of the text between 4 and 31 March 1833. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 92 |
politics | Eliza Lynn Linton | Eliza's interest in politics began when she was very young. Her biographer George Somes Layard
writes that the first seeds of her early republicanism were sown in Eliza's mind by Daniel O'Connell
's appearances at... |
Publishing | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | The Nation published an anonymous review of a biography of Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell
by Jane Francesca Elgee (later JFLW
): she called for the overthrow of English rule in Ireland. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 300 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | The poem criticizes Daniel O'Connell
's leadership in Irish politics. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 33 |
politics | Frances Sarah Hoey | It was shortly after this marriage that her lifelong Irish nationalism was awakened by a meeting with patriot leader Daniel O'Connell
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | The stories center on the folklore of Kiltartan, the district where AG
lived. They were gathered from conversations with old men and women, including workhouse wards and people she met on the roads. The... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Grant | EG
was not impressed by the large colony of British residents at Pau and found their company somewhat tiresome. An entry on 31 December 1843 captures her mood: We have left our own weeping climate... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | In an extraordinary passage near the end of the book, Cecil lists a number of people who might, if they could only work together, revolutionize the country. Farrell, John P. “Toward a New History of Fiction: The Wolff Collection and the Example of Mrs. Gore”. The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, Vol. 37 , pp. 28-37. 36 |
No bibliographical results available.