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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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| 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 | 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 | 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 | Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton | Edward Bulwer
's hugely successful The Last Days of Pompeii appeared, as by the author of Pelham, in three volumes; another historical novel, Rienzi (based on the play of the same name by Mary Russell Mitford |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Caroline Norton | In 1832 CN
began editing the newly-launched La Belle Assemblée; or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995. 88 Known both as La Belle Assemblée (which had first appeared in 1806 but had petered out) and... |
| Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans
in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father
's ideas for a largely anecdotalintroduction to Elizabeth Gaskell
's Cranford. Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , 1980, pp. 285-7. 293 |
| Textual Production | Caroline Norton | This was published for its first two years in France, Germany, and the United States, and then from 1836 onwards in England. Among CN
's signed contributors were Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley |
| Textual Production | Barbara Hofland | Mary Russell Mitford
commented on this letter. Holford's modern biographer knew of no surviving copy of this work; OCLC lists only a single copy, at Cornell University
. Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992. 70 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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