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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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Elizabeth Strickland | 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... |
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)
... |
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 |
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 |
Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Response to Michael Armstrong was strong, both among readers who accepted FT
's representation of child labour and among those who rejected her descriptions as too explicit. Among the series of Factory Acts passed this... |
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... |
Occupation | Queen Victoria | QV
opened Parliament
, witnessed by many including Lady Morgan
, who admired her composure and oral delivery. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 73 Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen. 2: 428 |
Literary responses | Jane West | Unlike JW
's two previous works, this one was reviewed in the Quarterly Magazine and elsewhere. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 373 |
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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriette Wilson | Two years later Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
told Sydney Morgan
that HW
was married to a very handsome man, who was willing to make an honest woman of her. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen. 2: 223 |
Literary responses | Harriette Wilson | The Memoirs immediately produced extraordinary sensations in fashionable life, Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber. 199 |
Textual Features | 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 |
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