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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 ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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)... |
| Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | 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
,... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth B. Lester | Both these novels feature French and Latin tags in their text, but lack epigraphs at the head of chapters. The Quakers, which Garside calls Opie
-esque, is written in a confident, literary style and... |
| Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Lamb
worried intensely about the probable reception of Ada Reis, particularly the scenes in hell, and he tried to enlist William Gifford
of the Quarterly as an ally in pressuring Caroline to tone... |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
's friendships with women writers (besides Morgan) would surprise anyone not taking her seriously as a writer. When Germaine de Staël
visited England, Lady Caroline was delighted to find her wearing a hat with... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Theresa Kemble | The title alludes to Hannah Cowley
's very popular The Belle's Stratagem, 1780. MTK
's heroine, like hers, is lively and witty. Lady Emily spars verbally with her suitor O'Donolan, and keeps her freedom... |
| Textual Production | Isabella Kelly | IK
's first, anonymous novel, Madeline; or, The Castle of Montgomery, was advertised as just published, in the same year as her first book of poetry. Amelia Opie
re-used the first part of this... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Kavanagh | In this second work of women's literary history, JK
once again limits herself to the novel. Her canon comprises ten authors, from Aphra Behn
to Sydney Morgan
by way of Sarah Fielding
, Frances Burney |
| Textual Features | Christian Isobel Johnstone | Johnstone's Edinburgh Magazine was heavily political in content, while Tait's was designed to have greater appeal to the general reader. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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Texts
Opie, Amelia. The Warrior’s Return, and Other Poems. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808.
Opie, Amelia. Valentine’s Eve. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816.