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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
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Radcliffe | Again she had the lead review spot in the Critical, which loved the book and quoted at length. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 2d ser. 14 (1795): 241-55 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Martin Ross | The stories are set in imaginary locations in the west of Ireland. Most revolve around fox-hunting, or else other country pursuits like horse-racing and horse-dealing. Behind these activities lies the familiar story (familiar for... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Regina Maria Roche | London Tales; or, Reflective Portraits includes a story called The Vacant Novel Reader, whose protagonist, Evelina, is so addicted to novels that her father fears she will never be happy among human beings as... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sappho | Sappho
's name was an honorific for women writers for generations. George Puttenham
may have been the first to use it to compliment a writing woman: in Parthienades, 1579, he said that Queen Elizabeth |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Hutton | Jane Oakwood says (presumably standing in for her author, as she often does) that in youth she was accused of imitating Juliet, Lady Catesby (Frances Brooke
's translation from Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni
). Hutton, Catherine. Oakwood Hall. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 3: 95 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Brooke | CB
was warmly appreciated in Ireland. She influenced there a parallel effort to preserve traditional music as she had preserved traditional words: that of Edward Bunting
, who edited in 1796 the first volume... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | COCE
opens by making two points which might seem at variance with each other: the fascination which the past holds for later generations, and their ignorance of its discomforts and inconvenience. In a note she... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | In an extraordinary passage near the end of the book, Cecil lists a number of people who might, if they could only work together, revolutionize the country. Farrell, John P. “Toward a New History of Fiction: The Wolff Collection and the Example of Mrs. Gore”. The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, Vol. 37 , pp. 28-37. 36 |
| Leisure and Society | Emily Faithfull | EF
made her first appearance in London society in 1853, at the home of the novelist, feminist, and Irish nationalist Lady Morgan
. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 15 |
| Leisure and Society | Lady Caroline Lamb | Sydney Morgan
said that Lady Caroline was tall and thin, with big dark eyes and a soft but enticing voice. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 254 |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Late in life EOB
ran a kind of salon which was remarkable for being bohemian and operating on a shoestring: with tea rather than wine (unlike the lavish salons of contemporary society hostesses like Lady Holland |
| Literary responses | Emily Eden | The Athenæum reported: A brighter book of travel we have not seen for many a day. It likened EE
's style to that of Lucie Duff Gordon
and her wit, satire, and suggestion to those... |
| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | Assessments of LCB
's work during her lifetime varied wildly. Sir Walter Scott
quoted her in print; Sydney Morgan
respected her work; but to most people her social identity eclipsed her literary one. Her early... |
| Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | Reviewers were anything but indifferent. The New Monthly Magazine thought the title character ably and vigorously drawn and the book therefore a moral one: a fearful beacon to warn the young and inexperienced. But the... |
| Literary responses | Maria Edgeworth | The Critical Review notice on Leonora began with oblique reference to Elizabeth Hamilton
's Memoirs of Modern Philosophers. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3d ser. 7 (1806): 215 |
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