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.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Emily Lawless | The Literary World vividly likened experiencing this novel to reading the life of a past century by lightning flashes, and the half-blinded reader reads on and on and cannot stop or look away short of... |
Textual Features | Emily Lawless | This novel relates the love of its English narrator, John Bunbury, for the high-born, Irish Lady Lavinia (a situation recalling that of Sydney Owenson
's The Wild Irish Girl). It sets the personal tale... |
Health | Lady Caroline Lamb | Georgina Hawtre
wrote from Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire to tell Sydney Morgan
of LCL
's alarming state of health since undergoing an operation. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 245 |
death | Lady Caroline Lamb | |
Leisure and Society | Lady Caroline Lamb | Sydney Morgan
said that Lady Caroline was tall and thin, with big dark eyes and a soft but enticing voice. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 254 |
Friends, Associates | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
was for most of her adult life a good friend of Sydney Morgan
, to whom she confided many stories of her childhood and youth, which Morgan preserved in her diaries. She later helped... |
Residence | Lady Caroline Lamb | Lady Caroline had two homes, the Lamb estate of Brocket Hall (now a hotel and conference centre) Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan. 292 |
Health | Lady Caroline Lamb | She had already undergone a severe shock on hearing of his death, and had been fencing with John Cam Hobhouse
about the return of letters on both sides. Soon the family was employing two female... |
Textual Production | Lady Caroline Lamb | |
Publishing | Lady Caroline Lamb | According to her own account, LCL
wrote her notorious novel Glenarvon and sent it to press within one month, while articles of separation were being drawn up by her husband following her act of violence... |
Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | Reviewers were anything but indifferent. The New Monthly Magazine thought the title character ably and vigorously drawn and the book therefore a moral one: a fearful beacon to warn the young and inexperienced. But the... |
Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | From the date of Byron's death, LCL
lived with a constant succession of revelations in celebrity memoirs, which often contained something hurtful to herself. Thomas Medwin
, whom she respected as a truth-teller, printed an... |
Friends, Associates | L. E. L. | By the time LEL began living alone, she was well-known in literary circles. She became a good friend of Emma Roberts
and Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
around this time, and gradually became a recognized London public figure... |
Occupation | Fanny Kemble | She toured England, Scotland, and Ireland with the Covent Garden Theatre
company, met Walter Scott
, and was feted by Lady Morgan
in Dublin. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 54-6 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Kavanagh | In this second work of women's literary history, JK
once again limits herself to the novel. Her canon comprises ten authors, from Aphra Behn
to Sydney Morgan
by way of Sarah Fielding
, Frances Burney |
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