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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | 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)... |
Textual Production | Barbara Hofland | BH
's correspondence with Mary Russell Mitford
(whose earliest surviving letter dates from 25 May 1820) reveals her as an active and eclectic reader. The two women exchanged responses to Anna Maria Porter
, Amelia Opie |
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 |
Textual Production | Catherine Hutton | In the same month that she visited London to arrange this publication (her debut as a named author) she also began on her next novel. Yet she wrote of The Miser Married: I have... |
Literary responses | Harriett Jay | Response to the novel was mixed. The Academy criticized it as heavily derivative of William Hamilton Maxwell
's Wild Sports of the West and (oddly) from Sydney Morgan
's strongly pro-Irish The Wild Irish Girl... |
Wealth and Poverty | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
received £200 willed to her by Lady Morgan
. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 139-40 |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan
, who became a close friend and for whom GJ
acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover
; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold
; and... |
Occupation | Geraldine Jewsbury | Lady Morgan
was over seventy years old when the two women first met. They became close friends; Jewsbury often visited and dined with Morgan when she was feeling ill. When Morgan began work on her... |
death | Geraldine Jewsbury | She was buried in Lady Morgan
's vault in Brompton Cemetery. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Mercer, Edmund. “Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury”. Manchester Quarterly, Vol. 17 , pp. 301-21. 314 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. xi, 199 |
Textual Production | 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 |
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 |
Textual Production | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Kavanagh | In this second work of women's literary history, JK
once again limits herself to the novel. Her canon comprises ten authors, from Aphra Behn
to Sydney Morgan
by way of Sarah Fielding
, Frances Burney |
Occupation | Fanny Kemble | She toured England, Scotland, and Ireland with the Covent Garden Theatre
company, met Walter Scott
, and was feted by Lady Morgan
in Dublin. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 54-6 |
Friends, Associates | L. E. L. | By the time LEL began living alone, she was well-known in literary circles. She became a good friend of Emma Roberts
and Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
around this time, and gradually became a recognized London public figure... |
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