Anna Maria Hall

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Standard Name: Hall, Anna Maria
Birth Name: Anna Maria Fielding
Married Name: Anna Maria Hall
Used Form: Mrs Samuel Carter Hall
Used Form: Mrs S. C. Hall
AMH was an extremely prolific writer whose literary career spanned the pre- and later Victorian periods. She wrote many stories, nine novels, some children's literature, three plays, a pamphlet, and a travel book. She also worked as an editor and wrote several pieces in support of the temperance movement. Her fiction participated in mid-century debates over the plight of governesses and the position of women generally. Much of her work served to sustain stereotypes of Irish national character.

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Cultural formation Grace Aguilar
GA 's writings treat in detail the Jewish faith to which she strongly adhered, and she often focuses on the persecution and prejudice which Jews suffered throughout the nineteenth century, as well as historically. As...
Education Grace Aguilar
GA , a voracious
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
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, pp. 137-48.
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reader, was educated chiefly by her mother and directed in her studies by both parents. Anna Maria Hall reported that GA had learned to read almost by intuition
Hall, Anna Maria, and Frederick William Fairholt. Pilgrimages to English Shrines. Arthur Hall, Virtue.
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and...
Friends, Associates Grace Aguilar
Around this time her acquaintance deepened with Camilla Crosland .
Crosland, Camilla. Landmarks of a Literary Life, 1820-1892. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
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Other Christian literary friends included Felicia Hemans , Mary Howitt , and Anna Maria Hall .
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press.
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Wealth and Poverty Grace Aguilar
Although GA was far from wealthy, she gave freely to those poorer than herself, both Jews and Christians.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
As the old DNB put it, her friend Mrs S. C. (Anna Maria) Hallrelates many charitable...
Textual Production Grace Aguilar
It appeared as a tract that same year.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
She declined the invitation from publisher Henry Colburn to write a history specifically of Jewish persecution in England, later explaining to Camilla Crosland that [w]e are so...
Textual Production Grace Aguilar
According to Anna Maria Hall , it had been written in 1836.
Hall, Anna Maria, and Frederick William Fairholt. Pilgrimages to English Shrines. Arthur Hall, Virtue.
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Reception Grace Aguilar
Some accused GA , on grounds of her emphasis on spirit rather than form, of being a Jewish Protestant. However, she was very well received by many in the Jewish community, and even those...
Friends, Associates Mrs Alexander
In London, Annie French joined a literary circle which included Anna Maria Hall , Eliza Lynn Linton , and W. H. Wills , co-editor of Household Words.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Linton introduced her to author Joshua Davidson
Intertextuality and Influence Mrs Alexander
MA 's circle of literary friends in London were influential in the publication of Billeted in Boulogne. Anna Maria Hall , her countrywoman, introduced MA to W. H. Wills , the editor of Household...
Education Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mary Elizabeth read early and voraciously, polishing off Anna Maria Hall 's three-volume Marian when she was only seven. By nine she was reading Scott and Dickens . One of the family servants introduced her...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The public was scandalized by their adulterous relationship. When the editor of his St. James's Magazine, Anna Maria Hall , inquired after the health of his wife, Maxwell replied that she was defunct but...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Periodicals were vital to MEB 's career from the beginning. Having set out by regularly contributing sensational fiction to the Halfpenny Journal, she continued to provide articles in, for example, Punch and The World...
Friends, Associates Anna Eliza Bray
Owing to her nervousness and delicate health AEB did not socialize much; her literary friends were few though deeply valued, including L. E. L. , John Murray , Owen Rees , and Anna Maria Hall
Anthologization Mary Cowden Clarke
In 1848 MCC may have contributed two pieces to A Book of Stories for Young People, along with Mary Howitt and Anna Maria Hall . But Richard D. Altick believes the stories The Princess...
Friends, Associates Mary Cowden Clarke
In addition to meeting Dickens as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC and her husband met William Hazlitt through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt , and...

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Texts

Hall, Anna Maria. "God Save the Green!" A Few Words to the Irish People. S. W. Partridge, 1866.
Hall, Anna Maria. A Woman’s Story. Hurst and Blackett, 1857.
Hall, Anna Maria. Boons and Blessings. Virtue, Spalding, 1875.
Hall, Anna Maria. Can Wrong Be Right?. Hurst and Blackett, 1862.
Hall, Anna Maria. Can Wrong Be Right?. Burnham, 1862.
Hall, Anna Maria. Chronicles of a Schoolroom. F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1830.
Hall, Anna Maria, and National Temperance League. “Introduction”. Woman’s Work in the Temperance Reformation, W. Tweedie, 1868.
Hall, Samuel Carter, and Anna Maria Hall. Ireland: its Scenery, Character and History. Francis A. Niccolls, 1911.
Hall, Samuel Carter et al. Ireland: its Scenery, Character, &c. How and Parsons, 1843.
Hall, Anna Maria. Lights and Shadows of Irish Life. H. Colburn, 1838.
Hall, Anna Maria. Mabel’s Curse!. J. Duncombe, 1837.
Hall, Anna Maria. Marian; or, A Young Maid’s Fortunes. H. Colburn, 1840.
Hall, Anna Maria. “Master Ben”. The Spirit and Manners of the Age, pp. 35-41.
Hall, Anna Maria. Midsummer Eve. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848.
Hall, Anna Maria, and Frederick William Fairholt. Pilgrimages to English Shrines. Arthur Hall, Virtue, 1853.
Hall, Anna Maria. Sketches of Irish Character. F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1829.
Hall, Anna Maria, and Mrs Jonathan Foster. Stories and Studies from the Chronicles and History of England. Darton, 1847.
Hall, Anna Maria. Stories of the Governess. Published for the Benefit of the Governesses’ Benevolent Institution and sold by J. Nisbet, 1852.
Hall, Anna Maria. Stories of the Irish Peasantry. W. and R. Chambers, 1840.
Hall, Anna Maria. Tales of Woman’s Trials. Houlston and Son, 1835.
Hall, Anna Maria. Tales of Woman’s Trials. J. B. Lippincott, 1889.
Hall, Anna Maria. The Buccaneer. R. Bentley, 1832.
Hall, Anna Maria. The Buccaneer. R. Bentley, 1840.
Hall, Anna Maria. The Fight of Faith. Chapman and Hall, 1869.
Hall, Anna Maria. The French Refugee. J. Macrone, 1837.