Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Olivia Clarke
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Standard Name: Clarke, Olivia
Birth Name: Olivia Owenson
Married Name: Olivia Clarke
Titled: Olivia, Lady Clarke
Nickname: The Lady of the Lake
OC
, sister of the more famous Irish writer Sydney Morgan
, reads like an eighteenth-century writer though she was active in the early nineteenth century. She produced spirited light verse (always good-humoured though sometimes sharply satirical), and a light-hearted laughing comedy in which women triumph over men. Lord Albemarle
suspected her of contributing to her sister
's novels.
Feminist Companion Archive.
The sixth earl of Albemarle (who died in 1891 after holding the title forty years) seems a more likely commentator on OC
than the fourth, William Charles Keppel, who died in 1849, or the fifth, Augustus Frederick Keppel, who died insane in 1851.
Sydney Owenson
and her sister
attended Madame Terson's Academy, in Clontarf near Dublin.
She says she began school on 14 July, day of commemoration of the Battle of the Boyne, although the battle took...
Education
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
After Madame Terson retired, Sydney Owenson
and her sister
attended a finishing school, run by Mrs Anderson, in Earl Street, Dublin.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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Newcomer, James. Lady Morgan the Novelist. Bucknell University Press and Associated University Presses, 1990.
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine JewsburyEditors , AMS Press, 1975.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Owenson had a sister, Olivia, later Lady Clarke
, and two other siblings who died in infancy. She maintained contact throughout her life with Olivia (who wrote poetry and a successful play), and kept...
Family and Intimate relationships
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Her reaction to her sister
's death, which followed a couple of years later, shows clearly how her instinct led her to submerge grief in frenetic social activity.
Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
He was caricatured in works by Benjamin Disraeli
,Thomas Love Peacock
, Sydney Morgan herself, and her sister Olivia Clarke
. While the story that he caused the death of Keats is long since...
Textual Features
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
This epistolary novel charts the growth of love between two innocent, idealistic youngsters who barely understand their own feelings; the girl (named Olivia, like Owenson's sister
) is betrothed to someone else. Rousseau
's Nouvelle...
