G. E. Cokayne
's Complete Peerage gives the marchioness's name as Anne Jane; biographer Mary Campbell
gives...
Textual Features
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
In setting this novel in remote Donegal, Morgan continued her project of explaining her native land to her English readership. Her Irish hero, Roderick O'Donnel, is that almost unbelievable thing, an Irish gentleman who...
Textual Production
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
She wrote it while a member of the Marquess of Abercorn
''s household, where she read it aloud in the evenings to less than informed criticism. As before, she and Phillips
could not agree on...
Travel
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
She travelled out via the Dowager Lady Stanley
's house at Penhros on Anglesey (inherited from her father, Hugh Owen), and stayed in England until August.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.