Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Amelia Opie
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Standard Name: Opie, Amelia
Birth Name: Amelia Alderson
Married Name: Amelia Opie
Pseudonym: N.
AO
, who was publishing at the end of the eighteenth century and during the earlier nineteenth century, is best known as a novelist, but was also a dramatist, poet, and short-story writer. The opinions expressed in her writings are often reactionary in gender terms, though she was brought up a Unitarian
and later became a Quaker
and an active Abolitionist.
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As an adult AP
was reported by Amelia Opie
to be a homebody laudably attentive to her studies, in contrast with her flightier sister Anne.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
EBB
's early immersion in fairy stories and popular tales was followed by a more ambitious course of reading that began around the age of seven with history, classical poetry, and some of Shakespeare
's...
Friends, Associates
Annabella Plumptre
The earliest friend associated with AP
and her elder sister in literature and politics was Amelia Alderson (later Opie)
.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
In later years MCH
continued to maintain relations with several significant literary figures. She was once visited by Frances Trollope
, whom she described as A genial, natural woman, not especially refined, but far too...
Friends, Associates
Annabella Plumptre
On that November date Annabella made an attempt, by letter, to bring together their friend Amelia Alderson (later Opie)
with Mary Hays
. (Anne had already written to the same purpose in March, but not...
Friends, Associates
Henry Peter, Baron Brougham
Brougham had a number of friends among women writers. He was at primary school in Edinburgh with Susan Ferrier
(who, however, declined to acknowledge him later, probably for political reasons). His political work brought him...
Friends, Associates
Anne Plumptre
The earliest friend associated with AP
and her sister Bell in literature and politics was Amelia Alderson (later Opie)
.
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
LCL
's friendships with women writers (besides Morgan) would surprise anyone not taking her seriously as a writer. When Germaine de Staël
visited England, Lady Caroline was delighted to find her wearing a hat with...
Friends, Associates
Mary Russell Mitford
She knew most of the literary women of her day, including Felicia Hemans
(who wrote to ask her for an autograph),
L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882.
1: 173-4
Jane Porter
, Amelia Opie
(that warm-hearted person),
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, 1870.
2: 213
Friends, Associates
Lucy Aikin
In her memoirs LA
claims to have been acquainted with all the notable literary women of her time. She was a close friend of Joanna Baillie
and Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
. Another important friend and...
Friends, Associates
Eliza Fletcher
Hamilton, herself a conservative, set about de-demonizing EF
's political reputation. She had good success in persuading her friends that Mrs Fletcher was not the ferocious Democrat she had been represented, and that she neither...
Friends, Associates
Helen Maria Williams
On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW
and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801...
Timeline
4 April 1788
At about the time that he lost his religious faith, William Godwin
began keeping a diary, which he continued almost daily until 26 March 1836, only two weeks before he died.
After 1 February 1793
An organisation calling itself the Friends of Peace
began campaigning in tracts and pamphlets against the war with France (declared on this day).
June 1793
An enterprising printer and freemason, John Wharlton Bunney
, put out the first number of The Free-Mason's Magazine, or General and Complete Library.
1 April 1819
The Peace Society
(founded in 1816) began publishing a periodical, The Herald of Peace.
1868
Emily Taylor
(1795-18), who is remembered for books connected with her school-teaching career, published Memories of some Contemporary Poets, with Selections from their Writings, with a good representation of women among her subjects (from...
February 1895
Grant Allen
published his best-selling novel entitled The Woman Who Did; it was Keynotes Series no. 8.
Opie, Amelia. Adeline Mowbray. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Opie, Amelia. Dangers of Coquetry. William Lane, 1790.
Opie, Amelia. Detraction Displayed. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; S. Wilkin, 1828.
Opie, Amelia. Elegy to the Memory of the late Duke of Bedford. T. N. Longman, 1802.
Opie, Amelia. Illustrations of Lying, in all its Branches. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.
Winterson, Jeanette, and Amelia Opie. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, Pandora Press, 1986, p. v - viii.
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. xxxvii - lxx.
Opie, Amelia. Lays for the Dead. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834.
Opie, Amelia. Letter to Elizabeth Fry.
Opie, Amelia. Madeline. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.
Opie, Amelia, and John Opie. “Memoir”. Lectures on Painting, edited by Prince Hoare and Prince Hoare, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.
Opie, Amelia, and Cecilia Brightwell. Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie. Fletcher and Alexander, 1854.
Opie, Amelia. New Tales. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818.
Opie, Amelia. Poems. T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1802.
Opie, Amelia. Simple Tales. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806.
Opie, Amelia. Tales of Real Life. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813.
Opie, Amelia. Tales of the Heart. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.
Opie, Amelia. Tales of the Pemberton Family. Harvey and Darton; S. Wilkin, 1825.
