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Mary Russell Mitford
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Standard Name: Mitford, Mary Russell
Birth Name: Mary Russell Mitford
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, 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 | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Amelia Opie | AO
was enlisted for a contribution to Finden's Tableaux by its editor, Mary Russell Mitford
: she wrote for it The Novice: A True Story. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix. xxxix |
| Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | In 1813 she again met de Staël
(who was visiting London) and introduced her to Elizabeth Inchbald
. Others she met after her husband's death included Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, Byron
, and Sir Walter Scott |
| Wealth and Poverty | Amelia Opie | In the early years of their marriage Amelia
and John Opie
were badly off, and John was cautious about money matters. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under John Opie |
| 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Amelia Opie | He was also lame. According to Mary Russell Mitfordall was arranged and the time fixed for the wedding. It went off on agreement, because each had enough to live on [poorly and singly]... |
| Cultural formation | Amelia Opie | It may be significant that this was just two months before her father's death, though her friendship with the Gurney family was also important in her decision to convert. For more than a year she... |
| Literary responses | Amelia Opie | Mary Russell Mitford
, about to begin this book in its year of publication, summed AO
up as clever and good-natured but predictable and not for the fastidious. She knew the recipe for Madeline... |
| Literary responses | Amelia Opie | Opie's Tales of Real Life was praised by Mary Russell Mitford
. 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: 188 |
| Literary responses | Amelia Opie | AO
's novels, which formed a comparatively minor part of her output, had an impact beyond the rest of her work. Literary historian Gary Kelly
notes that when they were new they commanded among the... |
| Literary responses | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | Once again reviewers (as quoted at the back of The Matrimonial Lottery) were delighted with these [c]lever studies of Irish life and character. The Athenæum praised especially those stories which reflected first-hand knowledge (with... |
| Textual Production | Caroline Norton | This was published for its first two years in France, Germany, and the United States, and then from 1836 onwards in England. Among CN
's signed contributors were Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | Under Victorian law she was not allowed to participate in the trial. Both her reputation and Melbourne's political career were at stake. In the event the jury found Melbourne innocent without calling one witness for... |
| Textual Production | Caroline Norton | In 1832 CN
began editing the newly-launched La Belle Assemblée; or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby. 88 Known both as La Belle Assemblée (which had first appeared in 1806 but had petered out) and... |
| Textual Production | Susanna Moodie | Susanna Strickland (later SM
) sent Mary Russell Mitford
a poetic eulogy; of herself she wrote humbly: Never for me will lyre like thine be strung. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 196-7 |
| Textual Production | Susanna Moodie | A family friend, James Black, took the manuscript to London where he sold it for ten pounds. Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press. 30 |
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