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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Helme | The Critical reviewed this novel two months after publication. It goes unmentioned by Virgil B. Heltzel
in Fair Rosamond. A Study of the Development of a Literary Theme, 1947. Those preceding Helme in treating... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
| 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, 1990. 249 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Trollope | FT
's years of literary success were marked by tragedy: she lost two of her children to consumption, and eventually lost a third. Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research, 1983. 21: 324 Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979. 135 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Parr Traill | Many of CPT
's early works were published with the Quaker publishing firm Harvey and Darton
. Peterman sees in these works the influence of Virgil
, Izaak Walton
, Mary Russell Mitford
, and Gilbert White
. New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research, 1990. 332 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Hill | The setting of this book is an imaginary village called Barley Oxfordshire, based on the village where SH
lived. Consciously or not, it follows Mary Russell Mitford
and Flora Thompson
in its celebration of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Writing to Mary Russell Mitford
of her hope that they might meet, HM
acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. qtd. in L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols. 1: 263-4 |
| Leisure and Society | Frances Arabella Rowden | Rowden made the most of the cultural opportunities offered by London; she took pupils to attend the theatre and visit picture galleries, and continued to frequent these attractions when Mitford
visited her after leaving school. |
| 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, 1895. 179 |
| Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind
against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence
the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer... |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett
received her beloved cocker spaniel, Flush, as a gift from Mary Russell Mitford
. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990. 101 Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2025, 14 vols. to date. 5: xii |
| 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, 1983, 2 vols. 1: 178 |
| Literary responses | Amelia Opie | AO
's novels, which formed a comparatively minor part of her output, had an impact beyond the rest of her work. Literary historian Gary Kelly
notes that when they were new they commanded among the... |
| Literary responses | Catherine Hutton | The Monthly Review found Dorothy too bold to be acceptable or indeed natural. Constantine, Mary-Ann. “’The bounds of female reach’ Catherine Hutton’s Fiction and her Tours in Wales”. Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, issue 22, 1 Mar.–31 May 2017. |
| 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... |
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