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
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Literary responses | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Though these works were less generally admired in England than her pedagogical ones, SFG
continued to command leading reviews in English periodicals throughout her life. Dow, Gillian. “Genuine ’Genuine Anecdotes’: an émigré novel in 1790s Britain”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) 35th Annual Conference, Oxford. |
Literary responses | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | SFG
's importance to the influential Mary Wollstonecraft
can be gauged from the way that Wollstonecraft used and built on her writings, recommended them, measured others by their standard, and also did not hesitate to... |
Wealth and Poverty | Eliza Fay | She died in debt. A substantial collection of books, sold after her death in an auction held to raise money to satisfy her creditors, included works by Sir Walter Scott
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
,... |
Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | The letters that CF
sent to Anne Grant
are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their... |
Leisure and Society | Emily Faithfull | EF
made her first appearance in London society in 1853, at the home of the novelist, feminist, and Irish nationalist Lady Morgan
. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 15 |
Literary responses | Anne Katharine Elwood | The reviews for Elwood's second publication were more positive than for her first: John Bull declared that each biography was marked by good taste and excellent judgement. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. |
Literary responses | Maria Edgeworth | The Critical Review notice on Leonora began with oblique reference to Elizabeth Hamilton
's Memoirs of Modern Philosophers. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3d ser. 7 (1806): 215 |
Reception | Maria Edgeworth | Scholarly and critical work on her ever since Marilyn Butler
's literary biography, 1972, has amassed a significant body of new understanding. In 2009 Susan Egenolf
discussed her work in political fiction along with some... |
Literary responses | Emily Eden | The Athenæum reported: A brighter book of travel we have not seen for many a day. It likened EE
's style to that of Lucie Duff Gordon
and her wit, satire, and suggestion to those... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
's father, a Yorkshireman named William Hepworth Dixon
, was the editor of the Athenæum from 1853 to 1869 and wrote several novels. He was lionized by London society after the publication of... |
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
)... |
Textual Production | Ann Batten Cristall | The publisher Joseph Johnson
issued by subscription ABC
's Poetical Sketches: an important text in women's Romanticism. Her title was the same as that of William Blake
's first publication, 1783. Critic Richard C. Sha |
Textual Production | Catherine Cookson | From the age of eleven Catherine McMullen (later CC
) scribbled poems, stories, and plays. She called her first serious story The Wild Irish Girl—although if the title of Sydney Morgan
's novel had... |
Friends, Associates | Olivia Clarke | Sydney Morgan
noted her sister OC
's generous goodness to old Molly Cane
, their servant and mother-figure, who was dying and was full of plans for her funeral, coffin, and wake. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 321-2 |
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. |
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