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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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... |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | Mary Russell Mitford
believed by May 1837 that FH
had received a pension from the Crown of £100 a year. In fact, Robert Peel
, the prime minister, had in the year of her death... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Maria Jane Jewsbury
had already begun the idealisation of FH
in 1830 with her portrait of Egeria in The History of a Nonchalant: a muse, a grace, a variable child, a dependent woman—the Italy... |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | As the Victorian period advanced, FH
's popularity with readers held firm, but critics became less enthusiastic. George Gilfillan
published a substantial article on her in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1847, placing her first in... |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | FH
introduced herself to Mary Russell Mitford
through a letter praising Our Village for the sense of communion Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 123 Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 122-4 |
Friends, Associates | Henry Peter, Baron Brougham | Brougham had a number of friends among women writers. He was at primary school in Edinburgh with Susan Ferrier
(who, however, declined to acknowledge him later, probably for political reasons). His political work brought him... |
Literary responses | Caroline Herschel | In the beginning CH
's reputation was usually judged more as that of a woman and a sister than as that of a scientist. Frances Burney
's admiration and delight was directed at her as... |
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 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Hofland | BH
retained at least one life-long friendship from her Sheffield or Attercliffe days: with the poet and novelist Sarah Pearson
, who had been her neighbour there. Pearson's will charged Hofland with the task of... |
Travel | Barbara Hofland | In 1818 BH
paid a visit to Mary Russell Mitford
, who was still living at Bertram House, near Reading in Berkshire. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 114 |
Occupation | Barbara Hofland | Mary Russell Mitford
tells an amusing story of BH
's charitable philanthropy failing in its object. Hofland had been to great trouble and expense to help a starving male poet with a sick mother. She... |
Textual Production | Barbara Hofland | Mary Russell Mitford
commented on this letter. Holford's modern biographer knew of no surviving copy of this work; OCLC lists only a single copy, at Cornell University
. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 70 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Barbara Hofland | BH
's correspondence with Mary Russell Mitford
(whose earliest surviving letter dates from 25 May 1820) reveals her as an active and eclectic reader. The two women exchanged responses to Anna Maria Porter
, Amelia Opie |
Literary responses | Barbara Hofland | In the early 1820s BH
seems to have been at the apex of her career. She was appreciated not only by her friend Mary Russell Mitford
(who believed that nobody else could combine so much... |
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