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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.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Thomas Holcroft | Working as a stable-boy, being entrusted with the management of one of that race of creatures that were the most admired and beloved by me, Holcroft, Thomas, and William Hazlitt. The Life of Thomas Holcroft. Editor Colby, Elbridge, Constable. 1: 52 |
| Occupation | Sarah Tytler | As regards the typical feminine curriculum, ST
resented the tradition of mandatory music teaching—of the piano—to young women, and the slight to other branches of education in the extravagant favour shown to one branch. Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray. 235-6 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Anna Maria Bennett | Mary Russell Mitford
read the Beggar Girl with delight as a schoolgirl in Chelsea, liking it not only for the character and the liveliness, but for the abundant story—incident toppling after incident; all sufficiently natural... |
| 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 | Mary Wollstonecraft | MW
's posthumous vilification was followed by a long period during which her name was considered barely fit to be mentioned. Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
borrowed her title The Wrongs of Woman in 1843; Maria Jane Jewsbury |
| 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 | 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. 277 |
| 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 | 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 | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | The virtues of this powerful Irish novel were not fully appreciated in England. Mary Russell Mitford
thought that Morgan would be all right without the politics: she would be worth reading and praising if only... |
| Literary responses | Mary Howitt | This must be the book which saddened Mary Russell Mitford
and Henry Chorley
when they judged that it turns out to be a dead failure. 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: 175 |
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