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.

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
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
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Boyle
The Honourable Sir Courtenay Boyle , MB 's father, the second surviving son of Edmund, seventh Earl of Cork and Orrery , was a Vice-Admiral.
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte Brooke
CB was warmly appreciated in Ireland. She influenced there a parallel effort to preserve traditional music as she had preserved traditional words: that of Edward Bunting , who edited in 1796 the first volume...
Literary responses Lady Charlotte Bury
Assessments of LCB 's work during her lifetime varied wildly. Sir Walter Scott quoted her in print; Sydney Morgan respected her work; but to most people her social identity eclipsed her literary one. Her early...
Textual Features Lady Charlotte Bury
Sydney Morgan remarked with gusto: The murder is out!
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
2: 431
She maintained that never since Delarivier Manley 's New Atalantis of 1709 (which probably few but herself had heard of by this date) had...
Friends, Associates Lady Eleanor Butler
Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward , Henrietta Maria Bowdler (who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB as her veillard [sic] or old...
Textual Features Dorothea Primrose Campbell
One of the Royal Literary Fund 's forms gives this novel the title A Zetland Tale. It is indeed a National Tale, comparable to those of Scott, Christian Isobel Johnstone , and Sydney Morgan .
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Textual Features Georgiana Chatterton
GC enters warmly into the sufferings, both physical and emotional, of the poverty-stricken, sometimes starving, Irish peasants. She insists that Irish people have good taste and intelligence, talent, imagination and wit, and feels that many...
Literary responses Georgiana Chatterton
The book had the honour of being reviewed for the Athenæum by Sydney Morgan .
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Morgan, anonymous like all Athenæum reviewers, seems at first to be distancing herself from the author in terms of gender...
Friends, Associates Olivia Clarke
Sydney Morgan noted her sister OC 's generous goodness to old Molly Cane , their servant and mother-figure, who was dying and was full of plans for her funeral, coffin, and wake.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
2: 321-2
Publishing Olivia Clarke
OC began privately circulating her rhyming-couplet burlesque of J. W. Croker 's attack in the Quarterly on her sister 's book France.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
17 (1817): 260
Feminist Companion Archive.
Author summary Olivia Clarke
OC , sister of the more famous Irish writer Sydney Morgan , reads like an eighteenth-century writer though she was active in the early nineteenth century. She produced spirited light verse (always good-humoured though sometimes...
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...
Reception Olivia Clarke
The editors of her sister 's Memoirs, 1862, gave the text of the poem in full.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
2: 58-9
Textual Production Catherine Cookson
From the age of eleven Catherine McMullen (later CC ) scribbled poems, stories, and plays. She called her first serious story The Wild Irish Girl—although if the title of Sydney Morgan 's novel had...

Timeline

30 May 1782: The Duke of Portland, Lord Lieutenant of...

National or international item

30 May 1782

The Duke of Portland , Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, announced in the House of Lords a new Bill of Rights for Ireland: the Dublin Parliament was freed from the rule of the British Privy Council

1810: The independence struggles of the Spanish...

National or international item

1810

The independence struggles of the Spanish empire in South America began in what is now Bolivia (which secured its independence by a battle of 9 December 1824).

12 August-3 September 1821: The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland...

National or international item

12 August-3 September 1821

The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland (the first British monarch to do so since William III made war there), and was rapturously received in Dublin.

January 1833: The first issues appeared of two Irish monthly...

Writing climate item

January 1833

The first issues appeared of two Irish monthly periodicals: the successful Dublin University Magazine and the short-lived Dublin University Review, and Quarterly Magazine.

Texts

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. A Letter to the Reviewers of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Italy</span>. Henry Colburn, 1821.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Absenteeism. Henry Colburn, 1825.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Dramatic Scenes from Real Life. Saunders and Otley, 1833.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Florence Macarthy. Henry Colburn, 1818.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, and Sir Thomas Charles Morgan. France. Henry Colburn, 1817.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. France in 1829-30. Saunders and Otley, 1830.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, and Sir Thomas Charles Morgan. Italy. Henry Colburn, 1821.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen, 1862.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Letter to Cardinal Wiseman. Charles Westerton, 1851.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. O’Donnel. Henry Colburn, 1814.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Passages From My Autobiography. Richard Bentley, 1859.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Patriotic Sketches of Ireland. R. Phillips, 1807.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Poems. Alexander Stewart; Phillips, 1801.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. “Preface”. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs, edited by William Hepworth Dixon, W. H. Allen, 1862, p. iii - v.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. St. Clair. E. Harding , 1803.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. The Book of the Boudoir. Henry Colburn, 1829.
Morgan, Sir Thomas Charles, and Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan. The Book Without a Name. Henry Colburn, 1841.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. The Lay of an Irish Harp. Richard Phillips, 1807.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, and Salvator Rosa. The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa. Henry Colburn, 1824.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. The Missionary. J. J. Stockdale, 1811.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. The Novice of Saint Dominick. Richard Phillips, 1806.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys. Henry Colburn, 1827.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. The Princess. Richard Bentley, 1835.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. The Wild Irish Girl. Richard Phillips, 1806.