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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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 |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans
in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father
's ideas for a largely anecdotal introduction to Elizabeth Gaskell
's Cranford. Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , pp. 285-7. 293 |
Textual Production | Frances Trollope | Some of FT
's letters were published by A. G. K. L'Estrange
in The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford in 1882. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 159ff |
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 | Christian Isobel Johnstone | She included her own work, along with that of Gore
, Mitford
, Howitt
, Mrs Fraser
, and Catherine Crowe
. Several editions appeared, up to an eleventh in 1862. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Textual Production | Betty Miller | From this followed the commission to edit a volume of hithertoto unpublished letters from Elizabeth Barrett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 |
Textual Production | Ann Batten Cristall | The publisher Joseph Johnson
issued by subscription ABC
's Poetical Sketches: an important text in women's Romanticism. Her title was the same as that of William Blake
's first publication, 1783. Critic Richard C. Sha |
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 | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The title-page quotes Mary Russell Mitford
's recent Blanche of Castile (in Narrative Poems on the Female Character). EIS
dedicated her work to Lady Hamlyn-Williams
(Diana Anne née Whitaker, wife of the second baronet)... |
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 |
Textual Production | Emma Parker | The title-page mentions three of her previous works and quotes Mary Russell Mitford
on the topic of romantic Spain. |
Textual Production | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | BBBD
was a conscientious and entertaining letter-writer with a large circle of correspondents. The Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
holds a collection of her correspondence from the 1840s with Frances Parker, Countess of Morley |
Textual Production | Mary Howitt | Early in her marriage, living in Nottingham, MH
wrote both poetry and prose. Her early poem Wild Crocus in Nottingham Meadows treats a sight which she also, in February 1835, described lyrically in a letter... |
Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | This work involved her in finding—and engaging in voluminous correspondence with—contributors (who often were or became her personal friends), such as Anna Maria Hall
, Felicia Hemans
, Amelia Opie
, Mary Russell Mitford
,... |
Textual Production | Henrietta Euphemia Tindal | HET
contributed the introduction to Henry Chorley
's edition of Mary Russell Mitford
's letters (published by March 1872) and her Story of Kitty Canham appeared in July 1880 in Temple Bar. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2315 (1872): 297 Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Rhymes and Legends. Richard Bentley and Son. xi Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. |
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