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 | Jane Porter | Again her work was extremely popular. The French translation was banned by Napoleon
because of its portrayal of nationalist resistance to conquest. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Mary Russell Mitford
wrote disapprovingly of HM
's claims: I see no good in these experiments. 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: 281 |
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 | Frances Trollope | Heineman
claims reception was poor in England as well as America because the cultural climate in the former was beginning to resemble that of the latter; because of this, controls on women's behaviour were seen... |
Literary responses | Sarah Harriet Burney | The Critical review began predictably: The very name of Burney is sufficient to excite the most agreeable sensations in all the lovers of novel reading; Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 4th ser. 2 (1812) : 519 |
Literary responses | Barbara Hofland | In the early 1820s BH
seems to have been at the apex of her career. She was appreciated not only by her friend Mary Russell Mitford
(who believed that nobody else could combine so much... |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | The Athenæum's reviewer, Henry Fothergill Chorley
, wrote that after Mary Russell Mitford
's characterization of Cromwell
in her Charles the First, we know not who has conceived of the great General better... |
Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Soon after its appearance Mary Russell Mitford
heard this book reputed as clever, but not agreeable. 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: 168 |
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 |
Occupation | Honoré de Balzac | Mary Russell Mitford
translated some of Balzac's works. His oeuvre influenced many writers, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon
, Storm Jameson
, and Natalie Clifford Barney
, and has attracted criticism from Anita Brookner
. |
Occupation | Fanny Kemble | Later in 1830, when she acted Calista in Nicholas Rowe
's The Fair Penitent, Thomas Noon Talfourd
told Mary Russell Mitfordthat, at a distance from the stage, he could almost have imagined her... |
Occupation | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she... |
Occupation | Barbara Hofland | Mary Russell Mitford
tells an amusing story of BH
's charitable philanthropy failing in its object. Hofland had been to great trouble and expense to help a starving male poet with a sick mother. She... |
Other Life Event | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett
's dog Flush, a highly-valued companion given her by Mary Russell Mitford
, was stolen and held for two days before being returned for a ransom of five guineas. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton. 100, 117-18 Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press. 7: xii |
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