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
Health Lady Caroline Lamb
Georgina Hawtre wrote from Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire to tell Sydney Morgan of LCL 's alarming state of health since undergoing an operation.
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press.
2: 245
death Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL died at Melbourne House in London; she left to Sydney Morgan her portrait of Byron and some of his letters.
Her biographer Douglass dates her death as the 25th, while the Oxford Dictionary...
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
Friends, Associates Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL was for most of her adult life a good friend of Sydney Morgan , to whom she confided many stories of her childhood and youth, which Morgan preserved in her diaries. She later helped...
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
and their town residence, Melbourne House in London. She spent much of her time at Brocket...
Health Lady Caroline Lamb
She had already undergone a severe shock on hearing of his death, and had been fencing with John Cam Hobhouse about the return of letters on both sides. Soon the family was employing two female...
Textual Production Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL kept a diary, in which she recorded, for instance, her famous first impression of Byron . Late in her life she planned to publish this diary, and to consult Sydney Morgan about the best...
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...
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 Lady Caroline Lamb
From the date of Byron's death, LCL lived with a constant succession of revelations in celebrity memoirs, which often contained something hurtful to herself. Thomas Medwin , whom she respected as a truth-teller, printed an...
Literary responses Emily Lawless
The Literary World vividly likened experiencing this novel to reading the life of a past century by lightning flashes, and the half-blinded reader reads on and on and cannot stop or look away short of...
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...
Friends, Associates Eliza Lynn Linton
Eliza Lynn met a number of women authors who were once applauded but later complacently forgotten . . . . as literary fossils.
Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton.
85
She contended that Women who wrote were then few and far...
Textual Features Mary Martin
This novel follows in a tradition of presenting politically educative romance between Irish Catholic and English Protestant, which goes back to Sydney Owenson 'The Wild Irish Girl, 1806. Its interest lies in its...
Literary responses Mary Martin
In his review in the Athenæum, H. F. Chorley detected the strong influence of Lady Morgan on the characters and action of this novel.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1184 (1850): 707
He commented also on the novel's use...

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