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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Hester Mulso Chapone | Her brother John
wrote of the Praises that resound on all Sides following the publication of this book, though he regretted that reviewers, in praising the moral content, had ignored the literary style. Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon. 231 |
| Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Lamb
worried intensely about the probable reception of Ada Reis, particularly the scenes in hell, and he tried to enlist William Gifford
of the Quarterly as an ally in pressuring Caroline to tone... |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Late in life EOB
ran a kind of salon which was remarkable for being bohemian and operating on a shoestring: with tea rather than wine (unlike the lavish salons of contemporary society hostesses like Lady Holland |
| Leisure and Society | Mary Wollstonecraft | The painter John Opie
did a portrait of her at this time (now in Tate Britain
) which shows her wearing a fashionable, curled white wig. This seems to have been a studio prop, since... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Theresa Kemble | The title alludes to Hannah Cowley
's very popular The Belle's Stratagem, 1780. MTK
's heroine, like hers, is lively and witty. Lady Emily spars verbally with her suitor O'Donolan, and keeps her freedom... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Charlton | The New London Review ranked this novel much above mediocrity although over-crowded with incident. It felt that MC
had made an error of judgement in putting into the mouths of her inferior personages what it... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | Sales were unexpectedly brisk. Reviews were positive and most emphasised that the stories here were true. Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Smith, edited by Michael Garner et al., Pickering and Chatto, p. xxix - xxxvii. xxxvi |
| 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 | 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. 1: 173-4 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. 2: 213 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | This brief marriage brought Anna Eliza a number of literary friendships: with Sir Walter Scott
, Amelia Opie
, Letitia Elizabeth Landon
, John Murray
, Robert Southey
, and later with Southey's second wife,... |
| Friends, Associates | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | 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 | 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, p. vii - xxix. ix-x |
| 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... |
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