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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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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Harriet Martineau | Before the end of the year that saw the first volume in print, Mary Russell Mitford
had heard (though it was probably an exaggeration) that HM
had made more than £1,000 from those little eighteen-penny... |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | HM
later dated her release from pecuniary care from the huge, immediate success of this first number. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 1: 178 |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Mary Russell Mitford
wrote disapprovingly of HM
's claims: I see no good in these experiments. 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: 281 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | Among her subjects are Lady Byron
(an occasion for HM
to deplore Byron
's conduct and influence), Mary Berry
, Mary Russell Mitford
, Charlotte Brontë
, Jane Marcet
, Amelia Opie
, Mary Somerville |
| Reception | Elizabeth Meeke | EM
's books sold in the USA and Canada as well as in Britain. Their readers included Mary Russell Mitford
and Thomas Babington Macaulay
. He called them absurd and his own taste for them... |
| Textual Production | Alice Meynell | She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen
inferior to Charlotte Brontë
, accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:... |
| Textual Production | Betty Miller | From this followed the commission to edit a volume of hithertoto unpublished letters from Elizabeth Barrett
to Miss Mitford
. Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii. xvi |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The term bluestocking very quickly came to imply dismissiveness, if not actual disapproval and contempt. The first to use it pejoratively may well have been, as Gary Kelly
has suggested, those who felt threatened or... |
| Textual Production | Susanna Moodie | Susanna Strickland (later SM
) sent Mary Russell Mitford
a poetic eulogy; of herself she wrote humbly: Never for me will lyre like thine be strung. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 196-7 |
| Textual Production | Susanna Moodie | A family friend, James Black, took the manuscript to London where he sold it for ten pounds. Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press. 30 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Moodie | Critic Carl Ballstadt
numbers Suffolk writers Thomas Harral
and James Bird
among SM
's most important influences. Her sketches are also indebted to Mary Russell Mitford
, with whom she corresponded. New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research. 249 |
| Textual Features | Susanna Moodie | Roughing It in the Bush is a collection of sketches about a difficult adjustment to pioneer life in Canada, based on real incidents in SM
's life before her move to Belleville and embellished... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | Under Victorian law she was not allowed to participate in the trial. Both her reputation and Melbourne's political career were at stake. In the event the jury found Melbourne innocent without calling one witness for... |
| Textual Production | Caroline Norton | In 1832 CN
began editing the newly-launched La Belle Assemblée; or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby. 88 Known both as La Belle Assemblée (which had first appeared in 1806 but had petered out) and... |
| Textual Production | Caroline Norton | This was published for its first two years in France, Germany, and the United States, and then from 1836 onwards in England. Among CN
's signed contributors were Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley |
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