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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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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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| Textual Production | Betty Miller | From this followed the commission to edit a volume of hithertoto unpublished letters from Elizabeth Barrett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, 1985, p. vii - xviii. xvi |
| Textual Production | Emma Parker | The title-page mentions three of her previous works and quotes Mary Russell Mitford
on the topic of romantic Spain. |
| 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. qtd. in 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: 196-7 |
| Textual Production | Susanna Moodie | A family friend, James Black, took the manuscript to London where he sold it for ten pounds. Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999. 30 |
| Textual Production | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | BBBD
was a conscientious and entertaining letter-writer with a large circle of correspondents. The Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
holds a collection of her correspondence from the 1840s with Frances Parker, Countess of Morley |
| 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, 1882, 2 vols. 1: 159ff |
| Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | This work involved her in finding—and engaging in voluminous correspondence with—contributors (who often were or became her personal friends), such as Anna Maria Hall
, Felicia Hemans
, Amelia Opie
, Mary Russell Mitford
,... |
| Textual Production | Mary Howitt | Early in her marriage, living in Nottingham, MH
wrote both poetry and prose. Her early poem Wild Crocus in Nottingham Meadows treats a sight which she also, in February 1835, described lyrically in a letter... |
| Textual Production | Frances Arabella Rowden | The first canto was drafted by 7 February 1809, when Mary Russell Mitford
read it and hoped it would extend to a second canto. She read its praise of a male friend as sweet as... |
| Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | In 1793 CF
corresponded with William Cowper
's friend Lady Hesketh
, and through her, with Cowper himself. Mary Russell Mitford
concurs in calling CF
an excellent letter-writer. Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley, 1852, 3 vols. 1: 251 |
| Textual Production | Frances Arabella Rowden | In October 1811 FAR
was considering whether to undertake an English translation of Charlemagne by Lucien Bonaparte
. Mary Russell Mitford
suggested that they should do it jointly, dividing up the piece (she thought she... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | The idea of self-improvement through writing and reading correlates to the strong emphasis in EG
's fiction on education and the impact of environment. This was undoubtedly influenced by a Unitarian intellectual background indebted to... |
| Textual Production | Henrietta Euphemia Tindal | HET
contributed the introduction to Henry Chorley
's edition of Mary Russell Mitford
's letters (published by March 1872) and her Story of Kitty Canham appeared in July 1880 in Temple Bar. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2315 (1872): 297 Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Rhymes and Legends. Richard Bentley and Son, 1879. xi Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols. |
| Textual Production | Mary Howitt | This venture seems to have sprung from William's brief, financially damaging involvement in The People's Journal, 1846-8, whose chaotic business practices were a serious handicap to its programme for rendering workers prudent, sober, independent... |
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