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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 | 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. |
| 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 | Barbara Hofland | BH
's correspondence with Mary Russell Mitford
(whose earliest surviving letter dates from 25 May 1820) reveals her as an active and eclectic reader. The two women exchanged responses to Anna Maria Porter
, Amelia Opie |
| Textual Production | Geraldine Jewsbury | While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Harriet Beecher Stowe
, Camilla Crosland
, Anthony Trollope
, George Eliot
, Julia Kavanagh |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
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