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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Hall | The finished work was greatly influenced by Mitford's
1824 Our Village and the introduction is addressed to Mitford. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988. 348 Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997. 3 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Helme | The Critical reviewed this novel two months after publication. It goes unmentioned by Virgil B. Heltzel
in Fair Rosamond. A Study of the Development of a Literary Theme, 1947. Those preceding Helme in treating... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | The elderly lady, Lady Arabella, represents a chilly view of the English aristocracy. She opens her story with a paean in praise of past times and in dispraise of the present: How interminably long the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Moodie | Critic Carl Ballstadt
numbers Suffolk writers Thomas Harral
and James Bird
among SM
's most important influences. Her sketches are also indebted to Mary Russell Mitford
, with whom she corresponded. New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research, 1990. 249 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Trollope | FT
's years of literary success were marked by tragedy: she lost two of her children to consumption, and eventually lost a third. Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research, 1983. 21: 324 Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979. 135 |
| 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, 1990. 332 |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Heyrick | In the year 1827 EH
's reading included all of Jane Austen
's completed novels and Mary Russell Mitford
's Our Village. Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895. 179 |
| Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind
against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence
the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer... |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett
received her beloved cocker spaniel, Flush, as a gift from Mary Russell Mitford
. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990. 101 Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2025, 14 vols. to date. 5: xii |
| Leisure and Society | Frances Arabella Rowden | Rowden made the most of the cultural opportunities offered by London; she took pupils to attend the theatre and visit picture galleries, and continued to frequent these attractions when Mitford
visited her after leaving school. |
| Literary responses | Mary Ann Browne | Mary Russell Mitford
wrote that of all poetesses, MAB
had touched with the sweetest, the firmest, the most delicate hand, the difficult chords of female passion. qtd. in Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997. 155 |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | The review in the Critical made nostalgic reference to pleasure in Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl, and continued: As a national writer, we cannot too much admire her sentiments; and, as a descriptive writer... |
| Literary responses | Mary Howitt | Readers were often unable to distinguish between the two Howitts. Mary Russell Mitford
, however, reading The Book of the Seasons (published under William
's name alone, in 1831, at both London and Philadelphia), rightly... |
| 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... |
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