Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
ES
also became editor (through the good offices of Sydney Morgan
) of Henry Colburn
's Court Journal, which he launched in 1829. She later gave up this editorship in order to invest her...
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Catherine Fanshawe
The letters that CF
sent to Anne Grant
are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their...
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Christian Isobel Johnstone
She published this anonymously. Another edition of the same year has the Edinburgh imprint only. She claims that the first half of the work was set up in print before she had seen Scott
's...
It was reviewed on this date in the Athenæum by Sydney Morgan
.
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi.
xxxv
Athenæum. J. Lection.
596 (1839): 235-6
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Mrs F. C. Patrick
This novel predates The Wild Irish Girl by Sydney Owenson (later Morgan)
, which is generally thought of as the earliest novel of romantic Irish nationalism, by nearly a decade. Bibliographer Deborah McLeod
notes that...
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Catherine Cookson
From the age of eleven Catherine McMullen (later CC
) scribbled poems, stories, and plays. She called her first serious story The Wild Irish Girl—although if the title of Sydney Morgan
's novel had...
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Barbara Hofland
BH
's correspondence with Mary Russell Mitford
(whose earliest surviving letter dates from 25 May 1820) reveals her as an active and eclectic reader. The two women exchanged responses to Anna Maria Porter
, Amelia Opie
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Catherine Gore
CG
told Sydney Morgan
that her publisher, Bentley
, had both thought of the subject and suggested the title. But with this self-exculpation she admitted that her protagonist was based on Mary, Countess of Cork and Orrery
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Anne Plumptre
She aims, she says, at accuracy . . . impartiality . . . . fidelity,
Plumptre, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland. Henry Colburn.
v-vi
and hopes this book will arouse a deeper interest than that about France, since it concerns an object so...
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Lady Charlotte Bury
Sydney Morgan
remarked with gusto: The murder is out!
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
2: 431
She maintained that never since Delarivier Manley
's New Atalantis of 1709 (which probably few but herself had heard of by this date) had...
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Harriette Wilson
Much in this revised and expanded edition is merely scrappy (and some is written by Stockdale), with nuggets strung together by such giveaway phrases as By the bye and To change the subject.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber.
249
But...
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Sarah Green
The plot owes something to Charlotte Lennox
's Female Quixote. The father of Green's heroine has lived through many crazes for novelists: first Burney
, then Radcliffe
, then Owenson
, then Rosa Matilda
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Dorothea Primrose Campbell
One of the Royal Literary Fund
's forms gives this novel the title A Zetland Tale. It is indeed a National Tale, comparable to those of Scott, Christian Isobel Johnstone
, and Sydney Morgan
.
Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918.
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Emily Lawless
This novel relates the love of its English narrator, John Bunbury, for the high-born, Irish Lady Lavinia (a situation recalling that of Sydney Owenson
's The Wild Irish Girl). It sets the personal tale...
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Georgiana Chatterton
GC
enters warmly into the sufferings, both physical and emotional, of the poverty-stricken, sometimes starving, Irish peasants. She insists that Irish people have good taste and intelligence, talent, imagination and wit, and feels that many...
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Texts
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Twelve Original Hibernian Melodies. Preston, 1807.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Woman and Her Master. Henry Colburn, 1840.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Woman and Her Master. Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Woman; or, Ida of Athens. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809.