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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.
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| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Mary Russell Mitford
called this novel an attempt to portray the poet Byron
, recognisable through several anecdotes familiarly told about him, in very black and exaggerated colors. She maintained that Joanna Baillie
, as... |
| Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Soon after its appearance Mary Russell Mitford
heard this book reputed as clever, but not agreeable. qtd. in 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: 168 |
| Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford
spoke for the more conventional side of early nineteenth-century opinion when she wrote that in spite of her terrible coarseness, [she] has certainly done two or three marvelously clever things. qtd. in 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: 316 |
| Literary responses | Fanny Kemble | In its review the Athenæum placed Kemble in the ranks with Joanna Baillie
and Mary Russell Mitford
, though her published original contributions in this form are only three—her school-girl essay which became the play... |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Maria Jane Jewsbury
had already begun the idealisation of FH
in 1830 with her portrait of Egeria in The History of a Nonchalant: a muse, a grace, a variable child, a dependent woman—the Italy... |
| Literary responses | Mary Ann Browne | The Monthly Review treated her with teacherly firmness, criticising her imagery and admonishing her not to confuse sparklings of youthful fancy with the genuine, concentric fire of imagination. qtd. in Blain, Virginia. “’Thou with Earth’s Music Answerest to the Sky’: Felicia Hemans, Mary Anne Browne, and the Myth of Poetic Sisterhood”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 2 , No. 3, 1995, pp. 251-69. 260 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Caroline Bowles | A few months after publication, The Birth-Day was read with very much pleasure by the William WordsworthWordsworth
clan. qtd. in Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998. 122 |
| Literary responses | Catherine Fanshawe | Nearly twenty years after CF
died, Mary Russell Mitford
's Recollections of a Literary Life supplied the first public comment on her; the publication also included four poems by Fanshawe that had previously appeared in... |
| Literary responses | Caroline Herschel | In the beginning CH
's reputation was usually judged more as that of a woman and a sister than as that of a scientist. Frances Burney
's admiration and delight was directed at her as... |
| 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... |
| 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 | Henrietta Euphemia Tindal | Mary Russell Mitford
particularly praised The Infant Bridal for its pictorial qualities: she said it might be transferred to canvas without altering a word. Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley, 1852, 3 vols. 277 |
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