Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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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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...
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...
Friends, Associates
Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
MADH
moved in London society all her life and had many literary friends and acquaintances. Helen Black
mentions her shelves of autograph copies of her friends' books, particularly those by S. C. Hall
and Anna Maria Hall
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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.)
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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
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
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.
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