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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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
| death | Robert Southey | A year and a half before he died Mary Russell Mitford
wrote of him: the mind gone—dark depression and utter failure of intellect. 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. 2: 232 |
| 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 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... |
| 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
... |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | The review in the Critical made nostalgic reference to pleasure in Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl, and continued: As a national writer, we cannot too much admire her sentiments; and, as a descriptive writer... |
| Literary responses | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | The virtues of this powerful Irish novel were not fully appreciated in England. Mary Russell Mitford
thought that Morgan would be all right without the politics: she would be worth reading and praising if only... |
| Education | Elizabeth Taylor | Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books. 12-13 |
| Friends, Associates | Henrietta Euphemia Tindal | Friends with whom she maintained contact by correspondence included her neighbour Mary Russell Mitford
, who commented to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
that HET
had been wrong in her theory about the authorship of Jane Eyre... |
| Literary responses | Henrietta Euphemia Tindal | Mary Russell Mitford
particularly praised The Infant Bridal for its pictorial qualities: she said it might be transferred to canvas without altering a word. Mitford, Mary Russell. Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places and People. R. Bentley. 277 |
| 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. xi Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Parr Traill | Many of CPT
's early works were published with the Quaker publishing firm Harvey and Darton
. Peterman sees in these works the influence of Virgil
, Izaak Walton
, Mary Russell Mitford
, and Gilbert White
. New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research. 332 |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Trollope | Frances's earliest friendships were forged with intelligent young women like herself, such as Marianne Gabell
, a headmaster's daughter. She also socialized with older women, including Mrs George Mitford
, the mother of Mary Russell Mitford |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Trollope | It took several years for the Trollopes' financial difficulties to turn into a financial catastrophe, and during those years, FT
entertained many friends and acquaintances, including Lady Milman
, whose husband had been Queen Charlotte |
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