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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Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | The Quarterly began its notice with heavy condescension: We have no passion for breaking a butterfly upon the wheel, and should not notice this little volume, if we were not on the whole pleased with... |
Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Morgan
nonetheless reported that in 1841 the fashionable world was sneering and mangling over Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 466 |
Literary responses | Harriett Jay | Response to the novel was mixed. The Academy criticized it as heavily derivative of William Hamilton Maxwell
's Wild Sports of the West and (oddly) from Sydney Morgan
's strongly pro-Irish The Wild Irish Girl... |
Literary responses | Harriette Wilson | The Memoirs immediately produced extraordinary sensations in fashionable life, Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber. 199 |
Occupation | Geraldine Jewsbury | Lady Morgan
was over seventy years old when the two women first met. They became close friends; Jewsbury often visited and dined with Morgan when she was feeling ill. When Morgan began work on her... |
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 |
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 |
Occupation | Catherine Gore | Literary historian Rebecca Lynne Russell Baird
indicates that during this time CGbecame known as somewhat of a recluse who let little be known of her home life. Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. University of Arkansas. 22 |
Occupation | John Wilson Croker | JWC
became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory
MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey
and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk
)... |
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... |
Publishing | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
received £90 from Lady Morgan
for her help preparing Passages from My Autobiography. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 137-8 |
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. |
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... |
Reception | Catherine Gore | CG
, identified during her lifetime with satire on the upper classes, was depicted by P. G. Patmore
in Chatsworth; or, The Romance of a Week, 1844, Lady Bab Brilliant, who publicly lashed... |
Reception | Maria Edgeworth | Scholarly and critical work on her ever since Marilyn Butler
's literary biography, 1972, has amassed a significant body of new understanding. In 2009 Susan Egenolf
discussed her work in political fiction along with some... |
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