Amelia Opie
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Standard Name: Opie, Amelia
Birth Name: Amelia Alderson
Married Name: Amelia Opie
Pseudonym: N.
AO
, who was publishing at the end of the eighteenth century and during the earlier nineteenth century, is best known as a novelist, but was also a dramatist, poet, and short-story writer. The opinions expressed in her writings are often reactionary in gender terms, though she was brought up a Unitarian
and later became a Quaker
and an active Abolitionist.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Emma Marshall | EM
participated to the full in her Quaker forebears' habit of commemorating the dead in writing. She wrote an article of personal reminiscence on Amelia Opie
(whom she remembered as elegant and commanding in appearance)... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | Among her subjects are Lady Byron
(an occasion for HM
to deplore Byron
's conduct and influence), Mary Berry
, Mary Russell Mitford
, Charlotte Brontë
, Jane Marcet
, Amelia Opie
, Mary Somerville |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | She knew most of the literary women of her day, including Felicia Hemans
(who wrote to ask her for an autograph), L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 173-4 Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 213 |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Russell Mitford | The prime movers of this achievement were Henry F. Chorley
(who later edited her letters) and the Rev. William Harness
; the name of Queen Victoria
headed the list of subscribers. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 195 Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol. 66 , Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62. 54 |
Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins
's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron
's Childe Harold. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 1: 133, 152 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Nooth | His De la littérature des Nègres in its original form reflects internationalism, anglophilia, and perhaps even proto-feminism. The title-page quotes Mary Robinson
. The roll of honour of white activists for abolition and racial equality... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Plumptre | The earliest friend associated with AP
and her sister Bell in literature and politics was Amelia Alderson (later Opie)
. Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, p. vii - xxix. ix-x |
politics | Anne Plumptre | Three years later, in July 1794, both sisters stood on a platform with Amelia Alderson
, providing support as she made an anti-Whig, pro-Jacobin speech at Norwich. Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, p. vii - xxix. ix-x |
Friends, Associates | Anne Plumptre | Their friends included Eliza Fenwick
, Helen Maria Williams
, Susannah Taylor
, Mary Hays
, Amelia Opie
, Thomas Holcroft
, John Thelwall
, and other radicals. AP
supported Thelwall's local electioneering, and Ann Jebb |
Travel | Anne Plumptre | Taking advantage of the new freedom of English people to visit post-Revolutionary France, she joined forces with John
and Amelia Opie
to travel first to Paris. She stayed there for eight months (not enough... |
Education | Annabella Plumptre | As an adult AP
was reported by Amelia Opie
to be a homebody laudably attentive to her studies, in contrast with her flightier sister Anne. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Annabella Plumptre | The earliest friend associated with AP
and her elder sister in literature and politics was Amelia Alderson (later Opie)
. Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, p. vii - xxix. ix-x |
politics | Annabella Plumptre | Three years later, in July 1794, the sisters stood on a platform with Amelia Alderson
, providing support as she made an anti-Whig, pro-Jacobin speech at Norwich. Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, p. vii - xxix. ix-x |
Friends, Associates | Annabella Plumptre | On that November date Annabella made an attempt, by letter, to bring together their friend Amelia Alderson (later Opie)
with Mary Hays
. (Anne had already written to the same purpose in March, but not... |
politics | Marion Reid | In June 1840, MR
attended the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London, together with Anna Brownell Jameson
, Amelia Opie
, and Lady Byron
. She was the only Scotswoman present. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press. xii Ewan, Elizabeth et al. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women : From the Earliest Times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press. |
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