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 ascending | Excerpt |
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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. |
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. |
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 | Lady Charlotte Bury | Sydney Morgan
remarked with gusto: The murder is out! qtd. in Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols. 2: 431 |
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... |
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... |
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, 1902. 4 |
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 |
death | George Gordon sixth Baron Byron | His body was brought back to England (contrary to his expressed wishes), where dissension arose over his funeral. His sister
wanted it to be private and aristocratic, while public opinion (though not the establishment) wanted... |
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
. Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, 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, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. 119 |
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