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.
Full-length portrait of Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, by René Théodore Berthon, c. 1818. She sits in an ornate chair, with an elbow on a desk bearing paper, an inkwell, and a vase of flowers; her head rests pensively on her hand. She is wearing a black Empire-style dress with short puff sleeves, and holding a quill pen. A blue mantle with plentiful white fur trim is thrown carelessly on her chair. National Gallery of Ireland.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
2: 223
The couple concealed their marriage...
Literary responses Harriette Wilson
The Memoirs immediately produced extraordinary sensations in fashionable life,
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber.
199
with anguished responses from ex-lovers and moralists, as well as from people in the book trade and people in HW 's own sex trade. Crowds...
Textual Features Harriette Wilson
Much in this revised and expanded edition is merely scrappy (and some is written by Stockdale), with nuggets strung together by such giveaway phrases as By the bye and To change the subject.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber.
249
But...
Friends, Associates Helen Maria Williams
Sydney Morgan visited HMW , one of the idols of her girlhood,
Stevenson, Lionel. The Wild Irish Girl: The Life of Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan (1776-1859). Russell and Russell.
169
and was disappointed to find her a bulky, formless and faded old woman.
Stevenson, Lionel. The Wild Irish Girl: The Life of Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan (1776-1859). Russell and Russell.
170
Literary responses Jane West
Unlike JW 's two previous works, this one was reviewed in the Quarterly Magazine and elsewhere.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
2: 373
David Thame believes that this and West's next novel represent a substantial change of register from gossiping...
Occupation Queen Victoria
QV opened Parliament , witnessed by many including Lady Morgan , who admired her composure and oral delivery.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
73
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen.
2: 428
Textual Features Katharine Tynan
At the centre of this novel stands a young Irish girl brought up solely by her father, who is a Gaelic scholar. The action moves between Dublin and London. The plot involves a love...
Literary responses Frances Trollope
Response to Michael Armstrong was strong, both among readers who accepted FT 's representation of child labour and among those who rejected her descriptions as too explicit. Among the series of Factory Acts passed this...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Flora Tristan
One chapter, entitled English Women, criticizes British social systems, and details the consequences women suffer because of the indissolubility of marriage.
Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books.
198
FT shows particular sympathy for Rosina Bulwer Lytton , whom she depicts...
Textual Features Melesina Trench
About the first twenty pages are occupied by MT 's early reminiscences, probably written not long after her first husband's death: she frankly recorded her emotional disturbance over that event.
Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn.
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Later pages mix letters...
Friends, Associates Mary Tighe
Before she left London, MT met there her fellow Irish poet Tom Moore . He subsequently visited her in Dublin and complimented her in verse. She exchanged poems with Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre) ...
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
Even before settling in London, AS began her professional authorial career with tales for children, many published in The Parting Gift, of which she was at that time the editor.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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She published...
Textual Production Elizabeth Strickland
ES also became editor (through the good offices of Sydney Morgan ) of Henry Colburn 's Court Journal, which he launched in 1829. She later gave up this editorship in order to invest her...
Intertextuality and Influence Sappho
Sappho 's name was an honorific for women writers for generations. George Puttenham may have been the first to use it to compliment a writing woman: in Parthienades, 1579, he said that Queen Elizabeth
Intertextuality and Influence Martin Ross
The stories are set in imaginary locations in the west of Ireland. Most revolve around fox-hunting, or else other country pursuits like horse-racing and horse-dealing. Behind these activities lies the familiar story (familiar for...

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.