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.
Black and white print of a portrait of Anna Maria Hall painted by Henry Thomas Ryall in the 1830s. She sits in a chair looking down and to the left, wearing a dark dress with a V neck, with flowers at her bosom and a crucifix hanging below. Her dark hair, parted in the middle, falls in short ringlets adorned with a large rose. She has a watch on her right wrist and holds a book in both hands. National Gallery of Wales.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Florence Nightingale
By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau . She also knew John Stuart Mill , Giuseppe Garibaldi , James Clark , Edwin Chadwick , William Rathbone , Julia Wedgwood , Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Friends, Associates Margaret Oliphant
MO and her husband sometimes attended parties with such writers as Samuel Carter Hall , Anna Maria Hall , Dinah Mulock (later Craik) , and Mary Howitt .
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
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Friends, Associates Mary Howitt
Those they met there included the literary couples Samuel and Anna Hall , and Alaric and Zillah Watts (the latter couple's eldest son eventually married the Howitts' elder daughter, Anna Mary.)
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
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Once they were...
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
Friends, Associates Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe , author John Ruskin , Samuel Carter
Friends, Associates Lydia Howard Sigourney
On this trip LHS added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , Samuel Rogers , Anna Maria Hall and her husband , and Jane and Thomas Carlyle
Friends, Associates Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Anna Maria Hall , who called frequently, said that whatever might be true as to the scandal, Marguerite Blessington never lost an opportunity of doing a gracious act, or saying a gracious word.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey.
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Blessington...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Isabella Spence
During the 1820s Spence and Benger, then past their youth and each living on a pittance, were associated in running a salon on the model of those of the rich (like Lady Holland) or the...
Friends, Associates Sarah Tytler
ST 's literary friends by now included Dora Greenwell , Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood , Anna Maria (Mrs S. C.) Hall , and George MacDonald .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates Maria Jane Jewsbury
Determined to be a writer, MJJ actively sought literary society. Her other literary friends included author and editor Samuel Laman Blanchard , dramatist James Robinson Planché , the Rev. George Robert Gleig , and Sir Walter Scott
Friends, Associates Ellen Wood
As she began to establish herself as a writer, EW became a friend of her fellow authors Anna Maria Hall , Julia Kavanagh , and Mary Howitt . The latter wrote her a complimentary letter...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Russell Mitford
Our Village is often said to have inaugurated its genre of small-scale, local-colour sketch writing, but (apart from Washington Irving 's Geoffrey Crayon's Sketch Book, 1819) it owes an obvious debt to the work...
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...
Leisure and Society Julia Pardoe
JP associated with Frances Trollope , and corresponded with Mrs John Hearne , Samuel Carter Hall and Anna Maria Hall , Francis and Margaret Bennoch , and Sir John Philippart .
Szladits, Lola. “A Victorian Literary Correspondence: Letters from Julia Pardoe to Sir John Philippart, 1841-1860”. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Vol.
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Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
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Texts

Hall, Anna Maria. The Governess. W. and R. Chambers, 1858.
Hall, Anna Maria, editor. The Juvenile Forget-Me-Not. N. Hailes, F. Westley and A.H. Davis, R. Jennings.
Hall, Anna Maria. The Outlaw. R. Bentley, 1835.
Hall, Anna Maria. The Whiteboy. Chapman and Hall, 1845.
Hall, Anna Maria. Uncle Horace. H. Colburn, 1837.