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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Residence | Mary Ann Browne | |
Residence | Frances Trollope | During the summers, FT
travelled like many other English expatriates to the Baths of Lucca. Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press. 250 |
Textual Features | Christian Isobel Johnstone | Johnstone's Edinburgh Magazine was heavily political in content, while Tait's was designed to have greater appeal to the general reader. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Her response to him made it clear that she wanted a literary friendship and exchange. He resisted her attempts to cast him as her tutor—as well he might, being younger and the less established poet... |
Textual Features | Annie S. Swan | The indices to its bound volumes list both tales and serial tales without naming the authors—even though, as named on the pages where their work actually appears, they include such luminaries as Robert Buchanan
and... |
Textual Features | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington
, doyenne of the albums... |
Textual Features | Marghanita Laski | The book aims at literary recuperation. Here ML
blends analysis with celebration, but she recalls her marginalised writers primarily to raise questions about the present state of writing for children. She says that her subjects... |
Textual Features | Susanna Moodie | Roughing It in the Bush is a collection of sketches about a difficult adjustment to pioneer life in Canada, based on real incidents in SM
's life before her move to Belleville and embellished... |
Textual Production | Frances Trollope | Some of FT
's letters were published by A. G. K. L'Estrange
in The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford in 1882. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 159ff |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen
inferior to Charlotte Brontë
, accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:... |
Textual Production | Christian Isobel Johnstone | She included her own work, along with that of Gore
, Mitford
, Howitt
, Mrs Fraser
, and Catherine Crowe
. Several editions appeared, up to an eleventh in 1862. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Textual Production | Betty Miller | From this followed the commission to edit a volume of hithertoto unpublished letters from Elizabeth Barrett
to Miss Mitford
. Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, p. vii - xviii. xvi |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The title-page quotes Mary Russell Mitford
's recent Blanche of Castile (in Narrative Poems on the Female Character). EIS
dedicated her work to Lady Hamlyn-Williams
(Diana Anne née Whitaker, wife of the second baronet)... |
Textual Production | Ann Batten Cristall | The publisher Joseph Johnson
issued by subscription ABC
's Poetical Sketches: an important text in women's Romanticism. Her title was the same as that of William Blake
's first publication, 1783. Critic Richard C. Sha |
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 |
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