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.
Many Victorian readers found Zoe shocking, and GJ
's publisher
feared negative repercussions for printing it. Anna Maria Hall
complained that it was a most dangerous book, shaking the foundations of all sound doctrine.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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Occupation
Frances Arabella Rowden
FAR
was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she...
Occupation
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Morgan set up her first salon during her time in Paris. After returning to her home in Kildare Street and renovating it after its mistreatment by tenants, she made it the site of...
Occupation
Camilla Crosland
She worked a number of jobs that included teaching (she was a governess who attended her pupils by the day and did not live in), jewelry-making, and needlework. In the 1840s she was making about...
Publishing
Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ
's ambition was to be a journalist, but ill health prevented her from devoting her life to the profession.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press.
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Nevertheless, she published in several leading journals including Household Words, Lloyd's Weekly...
Publishing
Mary Maria Colling
The full title reads Fables and other Pieces in Verse . . . With some account of the author, in letters to Robert Southey
Esq. . . . by Mrs. Bray. The dedicatory poem...
Publishing
Mary Russell Mitford
Though Our Village was rejected at first by the New Monthly Magazine, MRM
went on publishing in that and in the London Magazine (for which she sometimes wrote in dramatic or dialogue form), the...
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...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Jenkins
Daniel Dunglas Home was, said a reviewer of EJ
's book, the most successful of all the Victorian mediums. Among his many supporters were Anna Maria
and Samuel Carter Hall
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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
,...
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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Textual Production
Charlotte Riddell
CR
joined Anna Maria Hall
as co-owner and co-editor of the St. James's Magazine (which Hall had founded in April 1861).
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press.
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Bleiler, Everett F., editor. Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ
used the Athenæum to express her opinions on women's writing. A review of Anna Maria Hall
's Sketches of Irish Character criticizes the author's erroneous ambition
Athenæum. J. Lection.
182 (1831): 262
in attempting to portray villains...
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...