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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Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old... |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Moore | His social circle included prominent literary women: Mary Tighe
, sisters Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson)
and Olivia Clarke
, Mary Shelley
, Marguerite Blessington
, Louisa Stuart Costello
, and Caroline Norton
. He knew... |
Friends, Associates | L. E. L. | By the time LEL began living alone, she was well-known in literary circles. She became a good friend of Emma Roberts
and Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
around this time, and gradually became a recognized London public figure... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Tighe | Before she left London, MT
met there her fellow Irish poet Tom Moore
. He subsequently visited her in Dublin and complimented her in verse. She exchanged poems with Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre)
... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | Eliza Lynn met a number of women authors who were once applauded but later complacently forgotten . . . . as literary fossils. Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton. 85 |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
's literary friendships with Sydney, Lady Morgan
, and with Jane Porter
were carried on, perforce, largely by letter. O’Keeffe, Adelaide, and John O’Keeffe. “Memoirs”. O’Keeffe’s Legacy to his Daughter, edited by Adelaide O’Keeffe and Adelaide O’Keeffe, G. Whittaker, p. x - xxxv. xi |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ham | |
Friends, Associates | Olivia Clarke | Sydney Morgan
noted her sister OC
's generous goodness to old Molly Cane
, their servant and mother-figure, who was dying and was full of plans for her funeral, coffin, and wake. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 321-2 |
Friends, Associates | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | SFG
was visited during the Revolution by Helen Maria Williams
(who mentioned her works with respect in print). After her final return to France the flocks of visiting Britons who continued to seek her out... |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | Lady Morgan
, the young Robert Perceval Graves
(tutor of her youngest son, and later a clergyman) and his wife, Sir William Rowan Hamilton
, Archbishop Whately
, and Blanco White
were among FH
's... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
was for most of her adult life a good friend of Sydney Morgan
, to whom she confided many stories of her childhood and youth, which Morgan preserved in her diaries. She later helped... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | Sydney Morgan
visited HMW
, one of the idols of her girlhood, Stevenson, Lionel. The Wild Irish Girl: The Life of Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan (1776-1859). Russell and Russell. 169 Stevenson, Lionel. The Wild Irish Girl: The Life of Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan (1776-1859). Russell and Russell. 170 |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Gore | CG
was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
to which Disraeli
, Lady Morgan
, and Letitia Landon
also... |
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 |
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