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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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | Anne Plumptre | She aims, she says, at accuracy . . . impartiality . . . . fidelity, Plumptre, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland. Henry Colburn. v-vi |
| 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 |
| Textual Features | 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 |
| Textual Features | 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 |
| Textual Features | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | One of the Royal Literary Fund
's forms gives this novel the title A Zetland Tale. It is indeed a National Tale, comparable to those of Scott, Christian Isobel Johnstone
, and Sydney Morgan
. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
| Textual Features | Emily Lawless | This novel relates the love of its English narrator, John Bunbury, for the high-born, Irish Lady Lavinia (a situation recalling that of Sydney Owenson
's The Wild Irish Girl). It sets the personal tale... |
| 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/. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Publishing | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
received £90 from Lady Morgan
for her help preparing Passages from My Autobiography. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 137-8 |
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