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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Selina Davenport | He was in his early twenties, just embarking on a literary career which began with writing poetry (melancholy in tone) and editing and criticising the poetry of others. He enjoyed the patronage of Edmund Burke |
| Friends, Associates | Henrietta Euphemia Tindal | Friends with whom she maintained contact by correspondence included her neighbour Mary Russell Mitford
, who commented to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
that HET
had been wrong in her theory about the authorship of Jane Eyre... |
| Friends, Associates | Henry Peter Baron Brougham | Brougham had a number of friends among women writers. He was at primary school in Edinburgh with Susan Ferrier
(who, however, declined to acknowledge him later, probably for political reasons). His political work brought him... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett
was introduced to Mary Russell Mitford
, who became a lifelong friend, by her cousin John Kenyon
; she met Wordsworth
the following day. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990. 80-2 Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2025, 14 vols. to date. 3: 320 |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Barbara Hofland | BH
retained at least one life-long friendship from her Sheffield or Attercliffe days: with the poet and novelist Sarah Pearson
, who had been her neighbour there. Pearson's will charged Hofland with the task of... |
| Friends, Associates | Caroline Clive | CC
remained a close friend of her early passion Catherine Gore
. qtd. in 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, 1990. Clive, Caroline. Caroline Clive. Editor Clive, Mary, Bodley Head, 1949. 266 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, 1990. |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Jane Vardill | While she lived in London AJV
moved in culturally active circles. She later described the poet Eleanor Anne Porden
(who lived not far away) as her dear friend, and was one of those who... |
| Friends, Associates | Catherine Gore | CG
was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
to which Disraeli
, Lady Morgan
, and Letitia Landon
also... |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Trollope | Frances's earliest friendships were forged with intelligent young women like herself, such as Marianne Gabell
, a headmaster's daughter. She also socialized with older women, including Mrs George Mitford
, the mother of Mary Russell Mitford |
| Friends, Associates | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
met Mary Russell Mitford
in summer 1822 at the London house of Mrs Vardill: presumably the mother of the Romantic poet Anna Jane Vardill
. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols. 1: 121 |
| Friends, Associates | Maria Jane Jewsbury | |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Trollope | It took several years for the Trollopes' financial difficulties to turn into a financial catastrophe, and during those years, FT
entertained many friends and acquaintances, including Lady Milman
, whose husband had been Queen Charlotte |
| Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | CC
's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright
was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting... |
| Friends, Associates | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Mary Russell Mitford
(who did not know HLP
) later praised her. HLP had met Mitford's teacher the future writer Frances Arabella Rowden
, in Wales while Rowden struggled as a neglected, uncared for 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, 1870, 2 vols. 2: 244 |
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Texts
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Works of Mary Russell Mitford, Prose and Verse. James Crissy, 1841.
Mitford, Mary Russell. Watlington Hill. A. J. Valpy, 1812.