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 |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | George Paston | The subjects of the first collection include Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan)
, Mary Howitt
and her husband
, and Lady Hester Stanhope
. |
Textual Production | Mrs F. C. Patrick | This novel predates The Wild Irish Girl by Sydney Owenson (later Morgan)
, which is generally thought of as the earliest novel of romantic Irish nationalism, by nearly a decade. Bibliographer Deborah McLeod
notes that... |
Literary responses | Hester Lynch Piozzi | |
Friends, Associates | Anne Plumptre | Their friends included Eliza Fenwick
, Helen Maria Williams
, Susannah Taylor
, Mary Hays
, Amelia Opie
, Thomas Holcroft
, John Thelwall
, and other radicals. AP
supported Thelwall's local electioneering, and Ann Jebb |
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... |
Textual Features | Anne Plumptre | She aims, she says, at accuracy . . . impartiality . . . . fidelity, Plumptre, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland. Henry Colburn. v-vi |
Reception | Jane Porter | The ODNB judged the London scenes (where the hero is living privately in London and trying to make a living out of selling his painting) the most convincing in the book. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Again she had the lead review spot in the Critical, which loved the book and quoted at length. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 14 (1795): 241-55 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Regina Maria Roche | London Tales; or, Reflective Portraits includes a story called The Vacant Novel Reader, whose protagonist, Evelina, is so addicted to novels that her father fears she will never be happy among human beings as... |
Textual Production | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | Rosina Bulwer (later Baroness Lytton)
published her first novel, Cheveley; or, The Man of Honour, in three volumes. It was reviewed on this date in the Athenæum by Sydney Morgan
. Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi. xxxv Athenæum. J. Lection. 596 (1839): 235-6 |
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 |
Literary responses | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | Her husband, Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer Lytton)
, was embarrassed by Cheveley, seeing himself in the portrait of Lord De Clifford and his predilection for governesses, Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. 119 |
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... |
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 |
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. 22 |
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