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.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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)... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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