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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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| politics | Frances Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford
later recalled that FTused to be such a Radical that her house in London was a perfect emporium of escaped state criminals. I remember asking her at one of her parties... |
| Publishing | Harriet Martineau | Before the end of the year that saw the first volume in print, Mary Russell Mitford
had heard (though it was probably an exaggeration) that HM
had made more than £1,000 from those little eighteen-penny... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | She did not show the poems to Browning
until July of 1849; he persuaded her to include them in her next edition of Poems, saying I dared not reserve to myself, the finest sonnets... |
| Publishing | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
addressed a letter on the subject of Bread to the editor of the Sun in about 1817. Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, 1930, p. various pages. 16-17 |
| Publishing | Margaret Holford | In October 1830 Margaret Hodson, formerly Holford, was solicited by Baillie for contributions to the ongoing series of prose-and-verse miscellanies edited by M. Corbett
and her five sisters. (The first volume, The Odd Volume... |
| 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, 1999, p. i - xxix. xxxix |
| Reception | Jane Porter | Mary Russell Mitford
declined to feel sorry for JP
, who was, she said, sick . . . of her condemned play (that is since Switzerland failed). Her disease is wounded vanity. 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. 1: 341 |
| Reception | Caroline Clive | This poem was considered one of CC
's best works. It was praised by Mary Russell Mitford
, and George Saintsbury
noted its originality Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press, 1932. 123 |
| Reception | Elizabeth Meeke | EM
's books sold in the USA and Canada as well as in Britain. Their readers included Mary Russell Mitford
and Thomas Babington Macaulay
. He called them absurd and his own taste for them... |
| Reception | Eleanor Anne Porden | Mary Russell Mitford
was given this poem to review by Whittaker
; it was then that she met EAP
. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols. 1: 121 |
| Reception | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Mary Russell Mitford
's memoirs, published at the beginning of 1852, presented a sympathetic and admiring but (EBB
felt) far too personal picture of her. Camilla Crosland
wrote about her (as well as about... |
| Reception | Felicia Hemans | Mary Russell Mitford
believed by May 1837 that FH
had received a pension from the Crown of £100 a year. In fact, Robert Peel
, the prime minister, had in the year of her death... |
| Reception | Margaret Holford | It is clear from her correspondence with Joanna Baillie how much Margaret Holford the younger longed for success, and how much persistent energy she devoted to pursuing it. When in 1837-8 John Gibson Lockhart
published... |
| Reception | Felicia Hemans | As the Victorian period advanced, FH
's popularity with readers held firm, but critics became less enthusiastic. George Gilfillan
published a substantial article on her in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1847, placing her first in... |
| Reception | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Lord Melbourne
offered Sydney, Lady Morgan
, a Crown pension of three hundred pounds a year; she gladly accepted. She had been a close and supportive friend of Melbourne's first wife, Lady Caroline Lamb
... |
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