Anne Marsh

09 January 1791 - 05 October 1874

Standard Name: Marsh, Anne

Birth Name: Anne Caldwell

Married Name: Anne Marsh

Self-constructed Name: Anne Marsh-Caldwell

Pseudonym: The Author of Two Old Men's Tales

Pseudonym: The Author of Emilia Wyndham

AM was highly esteemed in her day as a novelist (and author of tales which would today be called novellas or short stories) whose career spanned about twenty-five years of the mid-nineteenth century. It is now known that she also left remarkable unpublished letters and an autobiographical Narrative. She began writing for print fairly late in life; and took to writing novels after a mid-life crisis. She describes this decision, along with earlier memories, in her Narrative. She published without her name. Her identity seems to have been known to reviewers, who gave her highly favourable notices (especially at first) but her anonymity has caused confusion later.

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Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Anthologization	Mary Ann Browne	Mary Anne Jevons included three poems by MAB in her little Liverpool publication The Sacred Offering. A Poetical Annual, 1834. Jevons had launched this venture in 1831, and for the first two numbers all...
Friends, Associates	Jane Marcet	JM probably knew her husband's friends Edward Jenner and William Hyde Wollaston ; she certainly knew and corresponded with John Yelloy . She was a friend on her own account of Margaret Bryan , Marcet, Jane. “Introduction”. Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806, edited by Hazel Rossotti, AuthorHouse, 2006, p. i - xxi. iii, v n6
Friends, Associates	Harriet Martineau	HM 's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...
Publishing	Dora Greenwell	In 1871 DG published in Saint Pauls (a magazine edited by Anthony Trollope for several years from October 1867) a translation of the medieval French Song of Roland (previously translated by Anne Marsh ). That...
Residence	Eliza Meteyard	On 26 June 1848 she wrote to Leigh Hunt from (apparently) Lamb Street in Spitalfields. For some years her home was the house of Margaret Gillies (a successful artist, portraitist, and feminist, who lived...
Textual Features	Julia Stretton	This story of love and courtship among the nobility contrasts the character and influence of older women on their children. Its first and second chapters open with descriptive passages painting first stormy weather on the...
Textual Features	Fredrika Bremer	She ends this book with the hope that Britain, home of wealth, progress, modernity, and terrible poverty, is on the brink of new birth through social reform. The progress she attributes in large part to...
Textual Production	Julia Stretton	An anonymous three-volume novel appeared with the title Woman's Devotion; this is probably the future JS 's first book. A mistaken attribution of this novel to Anne Marsh , with the whole chain of...
Textual Production	Julia Stretton	The future JS , as the author of Woman's Devotion, published Margaret and Her Bridesmaids, a three-volume novel which has sometimes been ascribed to Anne Marsh . Athenæum. J. Lection. 1485 (1856): 458 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production	Elizabeth Helme	This book bore the author's name as Elizabeth Helme, Jun. and its preface warns that spoiling children may lead them to rush into the vortex of vice and folly Somerville, Elizabeth Helme. James Manners, Little John, and Their Dog Bluff. Darton and Harvey, 1799. iii (a phrase characteristic of sensation...
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	Ellen Wood	EW had also been also accused of plagiarizing the plot of East Lynne from Anne Marsh 's The Admiral's Daughter, in which another erring wife returns unrecognised to her husband's house. In her Times...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	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...

Timeline

30 November 1824

A banker, Henry Fauntleroy , was hanged for forgery at Newgate Prison in London, before a crowd of 100,000. The bank he had worked for was that of Anne Marsh 's husband's family.

Reader, John. “Scram from Africa”. London Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2000, pp. 31-4.

Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

1826

William Saunders and Edward John Otley established themselves as the lending-library and bookselling firm of Saunders and Otley at 50 Conduit Street, London.

Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.

106: 271

Texts

Marsh, Anne, editor. Adelaide Lindsay. H. Colburn, 1850, 3 vols.

Marsh, Anne. Angela. H. Colburn, 1848, 3 vols.

Marsh, Anne. Emilia Wyndham. H. Colburn, 1846, 3 vols.

Marsh, Anne. Father Darcy. Chapman and Hall, 1846, 2 vols.

Marsh, Anne, editor. Heathside Farm. T. Cautley Newby, 1863, 2 vols.

Marsh, Anne. Mount Sorel. Chapman and Hall, 1845, 2 vols.

Marsh, Anne. Mount Sorel. Frederick Warne, 1895.

Marsh, Anne, and J. J. Heath-Caldwell. “Narrative (Diary) of Anne Marsh-Caldwell, 1791-1874”. Ancestors and Relatives of JJ Heath-Caldwell.

Marsh, Anne, and Mortimer O’Sullivan. “Preface”. The Nevilles of Garretstown, Saunders and Otley, 1860.

Marsh, Anne. Ravenscliffe. H. Colborn, 1851, 3 vols.

de Vigny, Alfred, and August Heinrich Julius Lafontaine. Tales of the First French Revolution. Translator Marsh, Anne, Simms and M’Intyre, 1849.

Marsh, Anne. The Deformed; and, The Professional Visits of "The Black Doctor". G. Newnes, 1896.

Marsh, Anne. The Protestant Reformation in France. R. Bentley, 1847, 2 vols.

The Song of Roland. Translator Marsh, Anne, Hurst and Blackett, 1854.

Marsh, Anne. The Triumphs of Time. R. Bentley, 1844, 3 vols.

Marsh, Anne. Two Old Men’s Tales. Saunders and Otley, 1834, 2 vols.