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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | The Athenæum called Light and Shade a modest and pathetic book. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2662 (1878): 559 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Georgiana Chatterton | The book had the honour of being reviewed for the Athenæum by Sydney Morgan
. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. |
| Literary responses | Adelaide O'Keeffe | Sydney Morgan
(who had been busy with AOK
's affairs this month) wrote, Poor Miss O'Keefe! her fathers book has just come in; what feebleness, but what amiable feeling! She quotes my account of him. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen. 2: 382 |
| Occupation | Queen Victoria | QV
opened Parliament
, witnessed by many including Lady Morgan
, who admired her composure and oral delivery. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 73 Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen. 2: 428 |
| 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. 22 |
| Occupation | John Wilson Croker | JWC
became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory
MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey
and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk
)... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Author summary | Olivia Clarke | OC
, sister of the more famous Irish writer Sydney Morgan
, reads like an eighteenth-century writer though she was active in the early nineteenth century. She produced spirited light verse (always good-humoured though sometimes... |
| Publishing | Lady Caroline Lamb | According to her own account, LCL
wrote her notorious novel Glenarvon and sent it to press within one month, while articles of separation were being drawn up by her husband following her act of violence... |
| 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 |
| Publishing | Olivia Clarke | OC
began privately circulating her rhyming-couplet burlesque of J. W. Croker
's attack in the Quarterly on her sister
's book France. Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 17 (1817): 260 Feminist Companion Archive. |
| 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 |
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