Mary Russell Mitford
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Standard Name: Mitford, Mary Russell
Birth Name: Mary Russell Mitford
MRM
, poet, playwright, editor, letter-writer, memoirist, and—in just one work—novelist, is best known for her sketches of rural life, especially those in the successive volumes of Our Village (whose first appeared in 1824). Her greatest success came when, under the pressure of her father's inexhaustible capacity for running up debt, she turned from the respected genres of poetry and plays to work at something more popular and remunerative.
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Occupation | Fanny Kemble | Later in 1830, when she acted Calista in Nicholas Rowe
's The Fair Penitent, Thomas Noon Talfourd
told Mary Russell Mitfordthat, at a distance from the stage, he could almost have imagined her... |
Occupation | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she... |
Literary responses | Catherine Hutton | The Monthly Review found Dorothy too bold to be acceptable or indeed natural. Constantine, Mary-Ann. “’The bounds of female reach’ Catherine Hutton’s Fiction and her Tours in Wales”. Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, issue 22. |
Literary responses | Mary Bryan | The novel's publication was listed in the Edinburgh Review 49 (1829): 529, together with Scott's Anne of Geierstein. The Edinburgh Review. A. and C. Black. 49 (1829): 528-9 |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | HM
later dated her release from pecuniary care from the huge, immediate success of this first number. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 1: 178 |
Literary responses | Jane Porter | Again her work was extremely popular. The French translation was banned by Napoleon
because of its portrayal of nationalist resistance to conquest. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Mary Russell Mitford
wrote disapprovingly of HM
's claims: I see no good in these experiments. 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: 281 |
Literary responses | Frances Arabella Rowden | Rowden's poem was reviewed by the Critical (3rd series 20 (May 1810): 112). Mary Russell Mitford
read the first canto with high appreciation and admiration that increase[d] with every perusal. She expected it to rank... |
Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Heineman
claims reception was poor in England as well as America because the cultural climate in the former was beginning to resemble that of the latter; because of this, controls on women's behaviour were seen... |
Literary responses | Sarah Harriet Burney | The Critical review began predictably: The very name of Burney is sufficient to excite the most agreeable sensations in all the lovers of novel reading; Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 4th ser. 2 (1812) : 519 |
Literary responses | Barbara Hofland | In the early 1820s BH
seems to have been at the apex of her career. She was appreciated not only by her friend Mary Russell Mitford
(who believed that nobody else could combine so much... |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | The Athenæum's reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley
, wrote that after Mary Russell Mitford
's characterization of Cromwell
in her Charles the First, we know not who has conceived of the great General better... |
Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Soon after its appearance Mary Russell Mitford
heard this book reputed as clever, but not agreeable. 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: 168 |
Literary responses | Barbara Hofland | Mary Russell Mitford
wrote to BH
, You are the mistress of our tears, as Miss Austen
is of our smiles, and I think you have the advantage. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press. 19 |
Literary responses | Lady Rachel Russell | As love-letters, they made a great and immediate impression on their readers. Yet later this year Mary Russell Mitford
wrote of LRR
with dislike. Mitford found her heavy, preachy, and prosy. As a writer, she... |
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