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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
| Education | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
was said to have learned to read by the time she was three. In January 1806 she got through fifty-five volumes, including books by Sarah Harriet Burney
, Maria Edgeworth
, Elizabeth Hamilton
,... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | She knew most of the literary women of her day, including Felicia Hemans
(who wrote to ask her for an autograph), L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 173-4 Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 213 |
| Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | The Quarterly began its notice with heavy condescension: We have no passion for breaking a butterfly upon the wheel, and should not notice this little volume, if we were not on the whole pleased with... |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Byron
(an admirer of Montagu's writing) came on some of her letters to Algarotti in Venice in the early nineteenth century, but his efforts to get John Murray
to publish them came to nothing. A... |
| Friends, Associates | Thomas Moore | His social circle included prominent literary women: Mary Tighe
, sisters Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson)
and Olivia Clarke
, Mary Shelley
, Marguerite Blessington
, Louisa Stuart Costello
, and Caroline Norton
. He knew... |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Nooth | As was her custom, she set her name to her work (which is now available on the world wide web). Although it was printed at Paris it apparently had an eye to an English market... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | The Athenæum called Light and Shade a modest and pathetic book. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2662 (1878): 559 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | COCE
opens by making two points which might seem at variance with each other: the fascination which the past holds for later generations, and their ignorance of its discomforts and inconvenience. In a note she... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Adelaide O'Keeffe | Lord Melbourne
, who got Sydney Morgan
her Crown pension of £300 a year, refused to increase AOK
's annual award of £50. Archives of the Royal Literary Fund, 1790-1918. |
| Friends, Associates | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
's literary friendships with Sydney, Lady Morgan
, and with Jane Porter
were carried on, perforce, largely by letter. O’Keeffe, Adelaide, and John O’Keeffe. “Memoirs”. O’Keeffe’s Legacy to his Daughter, edited by Adelaide O’Keeffe and Adelaide O’Keeffe, G. Whittaker, p. x - xxxv. xi |
| 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 |
| Textual Features | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
's unusual historical novel, which appeared several years before anything comparable by Sydney Morgan
, Christian Isobel Johnstone
, or Sir Walter Scott
, seems to carry within itself the seeds of the national... |
| Literary responses | Alicia Tyndal Palmer | William Gifford
panned this novel in the Quarterly. He ridiculed ATP
's grasp of history and geography, and her overestimate of the cultural influence of English governesses. He presents the novel as a tedious... |
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