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.
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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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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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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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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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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.