Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3d ser. 16 (1809): 282
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Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | This novel, said the Critical, deserves great praise for stepping out of the high way of modern romance. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3d ser. 16 (1809): 282 |
Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Croker
confessed to liking this piece, but insisted that Owenson had not yet heard the last of his dislike of The Wild Irish Girl. Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 75 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | One of this novel's topics is concealed identity (which results in repeated changes of name for several central characters). As the story opens, two men land at Dublin (which they find desolate, poverty-struck by the... |
Textual Features | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | In the society that Morgan depicts, the Irish Catholic gentry are mostly absent, scattered in European exile. The peasantry, dirt-poor but generous-hearted, include Tim O'Leary, schoolmaster of a hedge school, scholar and expert in Irish... |
Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | De Staël
is said to have had France read to her on her deathbed, with approbation. Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 149 |
Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Croker
, who again reviewed for the Quarterly, was obviously one of the race of intolerant critics Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 25 (1821): 532 |
Textual Production | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Sydney Owenson
replied to a series of anonymous satires by the young J. W. Croker
on Dublin theatre people, with a spirited pamphlet lampoon bearing her initials. Campbell, Mary. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora. 56 |
Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Critics in general, from first publication onwards, tended to identify Sydney Owenson with her heroine; the name Glorvina stuck to her thenceforward. The Critical Review (whose notice spelled this name wrong throughout) said it could... |
Literary responses | Lady Louisa Stuart | A critical and prejudiced review by John Wilson Croker
provoked Lady Louisa's fighting response in her Supplement to the Anecdotes. Rubenstein, Jill. “Women’s Biography as a Family Affair: Lady Louisa Stuart’s ’Biographical Anecdotes’ of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”. Prose Studies, Vol. 9 , No. 1, pp. 3-21. 18-19 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | While in London, ER
renewed old friendships and established new. She socialized with Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
, John Wilson Croker
, Henry Chorley
, Lord Lansdowne
, and Anna Jameson
(with whom she corresponded)... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Rigby | Lockhart
praised this article, writing: Mr Croker
pronounces it charming both for the sense and pleasantry. I scarcely think he ever said a word in favour of any other article not his own. Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages. 1: 165 |
Textual Production | Frances Reynolds | Most . . . but not all Hill, George Birkbeck, editor. Johnsonian Miscellanies. Clarendon Press. 1: xi |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Political economy was controversial in itself, and the potentially scandalous exposition by a young unmarried female of matters having to do with population control provided grist for the mills of hostile reviewers. HM
recollected hearing... |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | They included public men like George Canning
, John Philpot Curran
, and Lord Erskine
, and writers and theatre people like John Philip Kemble
, George Colman
the younger, dramatist and examiner of plays... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |