Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
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Standard Name: Morgan, Sydney Owenson,,, Lady
Birth Name: Sydney Owenson
Titled: Lady Sydney Owenson
Married Name: Lady Sydney Morgan
Pseudonym: S. O.
Nickname: Glorvina
Nickname: The Wild Irish Girl
In her capacities as poet, novelist, and travel writer with a sharp eye for culture and politics, SOLM
spoke for the early movement of Irish nationalism. She also wrote plays and verse. Her reputation, once dragged down by her politics, is now rising.
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.
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.
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Friends, Associates
Anne Plumptre
Elizabeth Inchbald
had written in veiled terms to Morgan
before the latter's marriage of her own brief and unhappy acquaintance (something like patronage) withAP
. This experience (which, she says, was well known to...
Family and Intimate relationships
Olivia Clarke
Olivia was a tomboy who used to tease her elder sister, Sydney
, for her sensibility and her admirers (showing something of the anarchic humour that later went into her verse).
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
1: 194
After Sydney...
Family and Intimate relationships
Harriette Wilson
Two years later Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
told Sydney Morgan
that HW
was married to a very handsome man, who was willing to make an honest woman of her.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen.
Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray.
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One of his postss was commissioner of the dockyards...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ella Hepworth Dixon
EHD
's father, a Yorkshireman named William Hepworth Dixon
, was the editor of the Athenæum from 1853 to 1869 and wrote several novels. He was lionized by London society after the publication of...
EH
dedicated this to the Marchioness of Abercorn
(later a patron of Sydney Morgan
). A review appeared in January 1804. Isabelle de Montolieu
made a free translation of this novel into French in 1808...
death
Geraldine Jewsbury
She was buried in Lady Morgan
's vault in Brompton Cemetery.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Mercer, Edmund. “Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury”. Manchester Quarterly, Vol.
17
, pp. 301-21.
314
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
xi, 199
death
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron
His body was brought back to England (contrary to his expressed wishes), where dissension arose over his funeral. His sister
wanted it to be private and aristocratic, while public opinion (though not the establishment) wanted...
death
Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL
died at Melbourne House in London; she left to Sydney Morgan
her portrait of Byron
and some of his letters.
Her biographer Douglass dates her death as the 25th, while the Oxford Dictionary...
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