Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan

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Standard Name: Morgan, Sydney Owenson,,, Lady
Birth Name: Sydney Owenson
Titled: Lady Sydney Owenson
Married Name: Lady Sydney Morgan
Pseudonym: S. O.
Nickname: Glorvina
Nickname: The Wild Irish Girl
In her capacities as poet, novelist, and travel writer with a sharp eye for culture and politics, SOLM spoke for the early movement of Irish nationalism. She also wrote plays and verse. Her reputation, once dragged down by her politics, is now rising.

Connections

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Wealth and Poverty Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ received £200 willed to her by Lady Morgan .
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
139-40
Wealth and Poverty Adelaide O'Keeffe
Lord Melbourne , who got Sydney Morgan her Crown pension of £300 a year, refused to increase AOK 's annual award of £50.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
Wealth and Poverty Eliza Fay
She died in debt. A substantial collection of books, sold after her death in an auction held to raise money to satisfy her creditors, included works by Sir Walter Scott , Anna Letitia Barbauld ,...
Travel Charlotte Guest
Her Mamma had entreated I should not go by this conveyance, lest some accident should befall.
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1833–1852. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, John Murray.
19
CG later travelled on the inaugural journey of the Great Western Railway
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1833–1852. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, John Murray.
243
and on a train...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Green
M. G. Lewis is a more complicated case, treated with some nuance. SG admires The Monk but feels that after that Lewis's real talent was obscured by the baneful influence of German fiction: she agrees...
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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Flora Tristan
One chapter, entitled English Women, criticizes British social systems, and details the consequences women suffer because of the indissolubility of marriage.
Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books.
198
FT shows particular sympathy for Rosina Bulwer Lytton , whom she depicts...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text George Paston
The subjects of the first collection include Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) , Mary Howitt and her husband , and Lady Hester Stanhope .
Textual Production Ann Batten Cristall
The publisher Joseph Johnson issued by subscription ABC 's Poetical Sketches: an important text in women's Romanticism.
Her title was the same as that of William Blake 's first publication, 1783. Critic Richard C. Sha
Textual Production Catherine Hutton
In the same month that she visited London to arrange this publication (her debut as a named author) she also began on her next novel. Yet she wrote of The Miser Married: I have...
Textual Production Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL kept a diary, in which she recorded, for instance, her famous first impression of Byron . Late in her life she planned to publish this diary, and to consult Sydney Morgan about the best...
Textual Production Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Byron (an admirer of Montagu's writing) came on some of her letters to Algarotti in Venice in the early nineteenth century, but his efforts to get John Murray to publish them came to nothing. A...
Textual Production Charlotte Nooth
As was her custom, she set her name to her work (which is now available on the world wide web). Although it was printed at Paris it apparently had an eye to an English market...
Textual Production Agnes Strickland
Even before settling in London, AS began her professional authorial career with tales for children, many published in The Parting Gift, of which she was at that time the editor.
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
22
She published...
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
From 1857 to 1858 GJ helped Lady Morgan compile her Passages from My Autobiography, published on 1 January 1859.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
137-9
She also edited with William Hepworth DixonLady Morgan's Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence...

Timeline

30 May 1782: The Duke of Portland, Lord Lieutenant of...

National or international item

30 May 1782

The Duke of Portland , Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, announced in the House of Lords a new Bill of Rights for Ireland: the Dublin Parliament was freed from the rule of the British Privy Council

1810: The independence struggles of the Spanish...

National or international item

1810

The independence struggles of the Spanish empire in South America began in what is now Bolivia (which secured its independence by a battle of 9 December 1824).

12 August-3 September 1821: The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland...

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12 August-3 September 1821

The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland (the first British monarch to do so since William III made war there), and was rapturously received in Dublin.

January 1833: The first issues appeared of two Irish monthly...

Writing climate item

January 1833

The first issues appeared of two Irish monthly periodicals: the successful Dublin University Magazine and the short-lived Dublin University Review, and Quarterly Magazine.

Texts

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. A Letter to the Reviewers of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Italy</span>. Henry Colburn, 1821.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Absenteeism. Henry Colburn, 1825.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Dramatic Scenes from Real Life. Saunders and Otley, 1833.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Florence Macarthy. Henry Colburn, 1818.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, and Sir Thomas Charles Morgan. France. Henry Colburn, 1817.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. France in 1829-30. Saunders and Otley, 1830.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, and Sir Thomas Charles Morgan. Italy. Henry Colburn, 1821.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen, 1862.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Letter to Cardinal Wiseman. Charles Westerton, 1851.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. O’Donnel. Henry Colburn, 1814.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Passages From My Autobiography. Richard Bentley, 1859.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Patriotic Sketches of Ireland. R. Phillips, 1807.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Poems. Alexander Stewart; Phillips, 1801.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. “Preface”. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs, edited by William Hepworth Dixon, W. H. Allen, 1862, p. iii - v.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. St. Clair. E. Harding , 1803.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. The Book of the Boudoir. Henry Colburn, 1829.
Morgan, Sir Thomas Charles, and Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan. The Book Without a Name. Henry Colburn, 1841.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. The Lay of an Irish Harp. Richard Phillips, 1807.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, and Salvator Rosa. The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa. Henry Colburn, 1824.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. The Missionary. J. J. Stockdale, 1811.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. The Novice of Saint Dominick. Richard Phillips, 1806.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. The O’Briens and the O’Flahertys. Henry Colburn, 1827.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. The Princess. Richard Bentley, 1835.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. The Wild Irish Girl. Richard Phillips, 1806.