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.
Full-length portrait of Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, by René Théodore Berthon, c. 1818. She sits in an ornate chair, with an elbow on a desk bearing paper, an inkwell, and a vase of flowers; her head rests pensively on her hand. She is wearing a black Empire-style dress with short puff sleeves, and holding a quill pen. A blue mantle with plentiful white fur trim is thrown carelessly on her chair. National Gallery of Ireland.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features 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
Literary responses Catherine Gore
Morgan nonetheless reported that in 1841 the fashionable world was sneering and mangling over
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
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this recognisable literary character. Her review of The Dowager for the Athenæum was one of a series in which...
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.
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The names he mentions include actual...
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...
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/.
She later told Sydney Morgan that Paris has been a land of Canaan to me, and the milk and honey will necessarily find their...
Occupation Catherine Gore
Literary historian Rebecca Lynne Russell Baird indicates that during this time CGbecame known as somewhat of a recluse who let little be known of her home life.
Baird, Rebecca Lynne Russell. Catherine Frances Gore, the Silver-Fork School, and "Mothers and Daughters": True Views of Society in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain. University of Arkansas.
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Yet this was the period during...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah Green
M. G. Lewis is a more complicated case, treated with some nuance. SG admires The Monk but feels that after that Lewis's real talent was obscured by the baneful influence of German fiction: she agrees...
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
Travel Charlotte Guest
Her Mamma had entreated I should not go by this conveyance, lest some accident should befall.
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1833–1852. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, John Murray.
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CG later travelled on the inaugural journey of the Great Western Railway
Guest, Charlotte. Extracts from her Journal, 1833–1852. Editor Bessborough, Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, John Murray.
243
and on a train...
Literary responses Anna Maria Hall
The second series was also well received. The Weekly Dispatch review of the same work reported that AMH did ample justice to the warmth of feeling, wit and humour of her countrymen, yet she does...
Textual Features Anna Maria Hall
AMH also provides a satirical representation of Lady Morgan in the form of Lady Babs Hesketh, whom Maureen Keene describes as a literary lioness who played the harp for an enraptured social gathering.
Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe.
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Friends, Associates Elizabeth Ham
Among the many officers visiting the Ham family at Ardnaree was Napier , later the author of the History of the Peninsular War. He had little disputes
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber.
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with EH about politics and religion...
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.
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Edgeworth was only mistaken in...
Dedications Elizabeth Helme
EH dedicated this to the Marchioness of Abercorn (later a patron of Sydney Morgan ). A review appeared in January 1804. Isabelle de Montolieu made a free translation of this novel into French in 1808...
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...

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