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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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The term bluestocking very quickly came to imply dismissiveness, if not actual disapproval and contempt. The first to use it pejoratively may well have been, as Gary Kelly
has suggested, those who felt threatened or... |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | FH
introduced herself to Mary Russell Mitford
through a letter praising Our Village for the sense of communion Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 123 Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 122-4 |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | Mary Russell Mitford
was another who knew FK
well even apart from their connection through the theatre. 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: 119-20 |
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 | 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 | Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre | Her many literary friendships, maintained in part by correspondence, included those with Joanna Baillie
and Mary Russell Mitford
(who first met each other in her drawing-room), Catherine Fanshawe
, and Mary Tighe
(with whom she... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | In Nottingham MH
met L. E. L.
and perhaps Elizabeth Fry
. She was visited by Mary
and Dora Wordsworth
(wife and daughter of the poet), and later she and her husband stayed with the... |
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 | 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. 2: 244 |
Health | Anna Maria Hall | Mary Russell Mitford
reported AMH
to be very ill: she was, however, using this report to back a thesis that supporting a family was too much for women's health. 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: 161-2 |
Health | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Her strength and spirit were further weakened by her grief over the death of her longtime though lately somewhat estranged friend, Mary Russell Mitford
. |
Health | Amelia Opie | Mary Russell Mitford
thought AO
much changed in April 1813: paler, thinner, and older looking. 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. 1: 181 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Hill | The setting of this book is an imaginary village called Barley Oxfordshire, based on the village where SH
lived. Consciously or not, it follows Mary Russell Mitford
and Flora Thompson
in its celebration of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Parr Traill | Many of CPT
's early works were published with the Quaker publishing firm Harvey and Darton
. Peterman sees in these works the influence of Virgil
, Izaak Walton
, Mary Russell Mitford
, and Gilbert White
. New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research. 332 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Writing to Mary Russell Mitford
of her hope that they might meet, HM
acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 263-4 |
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