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.
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Textual Features | Anna Maria Hall | AMH
also provides a satirical representation of Lady Morgan
in the form of Lady Babs Hesketh, whom Maureen Keene describes as a literary lioness who played the harp for an enraptured social gathering. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe. 110 |
Textual Features | Melesina Trench | About the first twenty pages are occupied by MT
's early reminiscences, probably written not long after her first husband's death: she frankly recorded her emotional disturbance over that event. Trench, Melesina. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench. Editor Trench, Richard Chenevix, Parker and Bourn. 18 |
Textual Features | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
's unusual historical novel, which appeared several years before anything comparable by Sydney Morgan
, Christian Isobel Johnstone
, or Sir Walter Scott
, seems to carry within itself the seeds of the national... |
Textual Features | Katharine Tynan | At the centre of this novel stands a young Irish girl brought up solely by her father, who is a Gaelic scholar. The action moves between Dublin and London. The plot involves a love... |
Textual Features | Mary Martin | This novel follows in a tradition of presenting politically educative romance between Irish Catholic and English Protestant, which goes back to Sydney Owenson
'The Wild Irish Girl, 1806. Its interest lies in its... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Hervey | It is variously and descriptively set in Wales (where it opens near the mountains of Snowdon and Penmaenmawr), Ireland, and South Carolina, where Ned's adventures begin with landing at Charlestown (or Charleston)... |
Residence | Lady Caroline Lamb | Lady Caroline had two homes, the Lamb estate of Brocket Hall (now a hotel and conference centre) Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan. 292 |
Residence | Catherine Gore | CG
and her family lived there for the next eight years. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Mary Russell Mitford | She contacted several people (including the novelist Lady Dacre
and the Whig hostess and diarist Lady Holland
) for support in her application, which was fuelled by the examples of the pensions granted to Sydney Morgan |
Reception | Jane Porter | The ODNB judged the London scenes (where the hero is living privately in London and trying to make a living out of selling his painting) the most convincing in the book. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Catherine Gore | CG
, identified during her lifetime with satire on the upper classes, was depicted by P. G. Patmore
in Chatsworth; or, The Romance of a Week, 1844, Lady Bab Brilliant, who publicly lashed... |
Reception | Maria Edgeworth | Scholarly and critical work on her ever since Marilyn Butler
's literary biography, 1972, has amassed a significant body of new understanding. In 2009 Susan Egenolf
discussed her work in political fiction along with some... |
Reception | Elizabeth Hamilton | EH
's death, as Pam Perkins
notes, received detailed and respectful coverage throughout the national press, including The Times's lengthy and sombrely respectful obituary by Maria Edgeworth
. Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi. 55 |
Reception | Olivia Clarke | The editors of her sister
's Memoirs, 1862, gave the text of the poem in full. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 58-9 |
Publishing | Lady Caroline Lamb | According to her own account, LCL
wrote her notorious novel Glenarvon and sent it to press within one month, while articles of separation were being drawn up by her husband following her act of violence... |
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