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 Author name Sort descending Excerpt
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Clara Balfour
She devotes a chapter to each woman of sterling qualities . . . . in the hope that studious habits, intellectual pursuits, domestic industry, and sound religious principles, may be promoted and conformed by such...
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
Education Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
Her aunt Julia was a great influence on BLSB , who through her met Harriet Martineau , Mary Somerville , and Amelia Opie .
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,...
Literary responses Anna Eliza Bray
The work sold well and received favourable reviews.
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall.
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In 1845 Amelia Opie wrote to AEB to confess that she had read the book four times and [meant] to read it again.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 54
She...
Education Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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...
Publishing Sarah Harriet Burney
While struggling to finish this work, SHB called it my own eternal rubbish
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press.
130
and my long plague.
Burney, Sarah Harriet. The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Editor Clark, Lorna J., University of Georgia Press.
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By October 1811 she felt she had her plot organised and almost all her allocations of...
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.
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Recently Sylvia Harcstark Myers
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...
Textual Features Elizabeth Cobbold
This collection features poetry by women such as Anna Maria Porter , Amelia Opie , Lucy Aikin , Elizabeth Carter , Anna Letitia Barbauld , Anne Hunter , Mary RobinsonCharlotte Smith , and EC herself.
Publishing Ann Batten Cristall
Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld and her brother , Ann Jebb , the future Amelia Opie , Anna Maria Porter , Mary Wollstonecraft and her sister, Mary Hays and her sister, a Mrs Spence who...
Textual Production Ann Batten Cristall
That year Dyer also recommended ABC 's poems to Joseph Cottle of Bristol, and two years later, by May 1799, he proposed to supply Robert Southey with something by ABC , and something by Amelia Opie
Reception Susan Ferrier
SF 's protagonists were included with those of Jane Austen , Frances Burney , Amelia Opie , Ann Radcliffe and others in W. D. Howells 's Heroines of Fiction, 1901.
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...

Timeline

4 April 1788: At about the time that he lost his religious...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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February 1895

Grant Allen published his best-selling novel entitled The Woman Who Did; it was Keynotes Series no. 8.

May 1992: The Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British...

Women writers item

May 1992

The Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Association held its first annual conference. Thereafter the conference was held at a different American location each year.
Parker, Pamela Corpron. “A Conference of Our Own: on the 20th Anniversary of the BWWA”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
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Texts

Opie, Amelia. Adeline Mowbray. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1805.
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.
Opie, Amelia. Temper; or, Domestic Scenes. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812.
Opie, Amelia. The Black Man’s Lament. Harvey and Darton, 1826.
Opie, Amelia. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 2009.
Opie, Amelia. The Father and Daughter. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1801.
Wilkinson, Sarah Scudgell, and Amelia Opie. The Ruffian Boy. J. Bailey, 1800.