Mary Russell Mitford
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Standard Name: Mitford, Mary Russell
Birth Name: Mary Russell Mitford
MRM
, poet, playwright, editor, letter-writer, memoirist, and—in just one work—novelist, is best known for her sketches of rural life, especially those in the successive volumes of Our Village (whose first appeared in 1824). Her greatest success came when, under the pressure of her father's inexhaustible capacity for running up debt, she turned from the respected genres of poetry and plays to work at something more popular and remunerative.
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Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Soon after its appearance Mary Russell Mitford
heard this book reputed as clever, but not agreeable. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 168 |
Literary responses | Barbara Hofland | Mary Russell Mitford
wrote to BH
, You are the mistress of our tears, as Miss Austen
is of our smiles, and I think you have the advantage. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 19 |
Literary responses | Lady Rachel Russell | As love-letters, they made a great and immediate impression on their readers. Yet later this year Mary Russell Mitford
wrote of LRR
with dislike. Mitford found her heavy, preachy, and prosy. As a writer, she... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | In probably 1836, Mary Russell Mitford
signalled her friendship for Lady Dacre
by sendng her Barrett's Prometheus Bound and An Essay on Mind, with praise for her power of writing, the force, the fire... |
Literary responses | Anna Maria Hall | The sketches were popular with readers. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Literary responses | Grace Aguilar | This must be the volume of tales of which Mary Russell Mitford
, reading them in June 1853 after the author's death, wrote: How affecting they are! And how healthy and true is the pathos—springing... |
Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford
spoke for the more conventional side of early nineteenth-century opinion when she wrote that in spite of her terrible coarseness, [she] has certainly done two or three marvelously clever things. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 316 |
Literary responses | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | Mary Russell Mitford
, stuck fast in this novel within a month or two of its publication, called it that do-me-good piece of vulgarity. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 1: 364 |
Literary responses | Jane Austen | Mary Russell Mitford
found JA
's heroine pert and worldly. Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press. 20 |
Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Mary Russell Mitford
called this novel an attempt to portray the poet Byron
, recognisable through several anecdotes familiarly told about him, in very black and exaggerated colors. She maintained that Joanna Baillie
, as... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's ballads have proved of particular interest to feminist critics. Dorothy Mermin
argues that in this apparently most innocent, retrogressive, and sentimental of female genres, she was exploring what was to become her central... |
Literary responses | Dinah Mulock Craik | Mary Russell Mitford
supposed from reading this book that its author was Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. Athenæum. J. Lection. (9 March 1872): 298 |
Literary responses | Amelia Opie | Mary Russell Mitford
, about to begin this book in its year of publication, summed AO
up as clever and good-natured but predictable and not for the fastidious. She knew the recipe for Madeline... |
Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | The Chief Justice of Ceylon, Sir Alexander Johnstone
, asked that two of JB
's last plays be translated into Singalese.One—The Bride, A Tragedy (published in summer 1828), had a Singalese subject. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 38 (1828): 602 |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Heyrick | In the year 1827 EH
's reading included all of Jane Austen
's completed novels and Mary Russell Mitford
's Our Village. Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers. 179 |
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