Anna Maria Hall

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Standard Name: Hall, Anna Maria
Birth Name: Anna Maria Fielding
Married Name: Anna Maria Hall
Used Form: Mrs Samuel Carter Hall
Used Form: Mrs S. C. Hall
AMH was an extremely prolific writer whose literary career spanned the pre- and later Victorian periods. She wrote many stories, nine novels, some children's literature, three plays, a pamphlet, and a travel book. She also worked as an editor and wrote several pieces in support of the temperance movement. Her fiction participated in mid-century debates over the plight of governesses and the position of women generally. Much of her work served to sustain stereotypes of Irish national character.
Black and white print of a portrait of Anna Maria Hall painted by Henry Thomas Ryall in the 1830s. She sits in a chair looking down and to the left, wearing a dark dress with a V neck, with flowers at her bosom and a crucifix hanging below. Her dark hair, parted in the middle, falls in short ringlets adorned with a large rose. She has a watch on her right wrist and holds a book in both hands. National Gallery of Wales.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Grace Aguilar
Although GA was far from wealthy, she gave freely to those poorer than herself, both Jews and Christians.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
As the old DNB put it, her friend Mrs S. C. (Anna Maria) Hallrelates many charitable...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ used the Athenæum to express her opinions on women's writing. A review of Anna Maria Hall 's Sketches of Irish Character criticizes the author's erroneous ambition
Athenæum. J. Lection.
182 (1831): 262
in attempting to portray villains...
Textual Production Grace Aguilar
It appeared as a tract that same year.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
She declined the invitation from publisher Henry Colburn to write a history specifically of Jewish persecution in England, later explaining to Camilla Crosland that [w]e are so...
Textual Production Grace Aguilar
According to Anna Maria Hall , it had been written in 1836.
Hall, Anna Maria, and Frederick William Fairholt. Pilgrimages to English Shrines. Arthur Hall, Virtue.
459
Textual Production Charlotte Riddell
CR joined Anna Maria Hall as co-owner and co-editor of the St. James's Magazine (which Hall had founded in April 1861).
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press.
285
Bleiler, Everett F., editor. Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
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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 Features Elizabeth Jenkins
Daniel Dunglas Home was, said a reviewer of EJ 's book, the most successful of all the Victorian mediums. Among his many supporters were Anna Maria and Samuel Carter Hall .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Home
EJ sets...
Reception Grace Aguilar
Some accused GA , on grounds of her emphasis on spirit rather than form, of being a Jewish Protestant. However, she was very well received by many in the Jewish community, and even those...
Publishing Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ 's ambition was to be a journalist, but ill health prevented her from devoting her life to the profession.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
66
Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press.
351
Nevertheless, she published in several leading journals including Household Words, Lloyd's Weekly...
Publishing Mary Maria Colling
The full title reads Fables and other Pieces in Verse . . . With some account of the author, in letters to Robert Southey Esq. . . . by Mrs. Bray. The dedicatory poem...
Publishing Mary Russell Mitford
Though Our Village was rejected at first by the New Monthly Magazine, MRM went on publishing in that and in the London Magazine (for which she sometimes wrote in dramatic or dialogue form), the...
Occupation Frances Arabella Rowden
FAR was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she...
Occupation Camilla Crosland
She worked a number of jobs that included teaching (she was a governess who attended her pupils by the day and did not live in), jewelry-making, and needlework. In the 1840s she was making about...
Occupation Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Morgan set up her first salon during her time in Paris. After returning to her home in Kildare Street and renovating it after its mistreatment by tenants, she made it the site of...
Literary responses Geraldine Jewsbury
Many Victorian readers found Zoe shocking, and GJ 's publisher feared negative repercussions for printing it. Anna Maria Hall complained that it was a most dangerous book, shaking the foundations of all sound doctrine.
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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Texts

Hall, Anna Maria. "God Save the Green!" A Few Words to the Irish People. S. W. Partridge, 1866.
Hall, Anna Maria. A Woman’s Story. Hurst and Blackett, 1857.
Hall, Anna Maria. Boons and Blessings. Virtue, Spalding, 1875.
Hall, Anna Maria. Can Wrong Be Right?. Hurst and Blackett, 1862.
Hall, Anna Maria. Can Wrong Be Right?. Burnham, 1862.
Hall, Anna Maria. Chronicles of a Schoolroom. F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1830.
Hall, Anna Maria, and National Temperance League. “Introduction”. Woman’s Work in the Temperance Reformation, W. Tweedie, 1868.
Hall, Samuel Carter, and Anna Maria Hall. Ireland: its Scenery, Character and History. Francis A. Niccolls, 1911.
Hall, Samuel Carter et al. Ireland: its Scenery, Character, &c. How and Parsons, 1843.
Hall, Anna Maria. Lights and Shadows of Irish Life. H. Colburn, 1838.
Hall, Anna Maria. Mabel’s Curse!. J. Duncombe, 1837.
Hall, Anna Maria. Marian; or, A Young Maid’s Fortunes. H. Colburn, 1840.
Hall, Anna Maria. “Master Ben”. The Spirit and Manners of the Age, pp. 35-41.
Hall, Anna Maria. Midsummer Eve. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848.
Hall, Anna Maria, and Frederick William Fairholt. Pilgrimages to English Shrines. Arthur Hall, Virtue, 1853.
Hall, Anna Maria. Sketches of Irish Character. F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1829.
Hall, Anna Maria, and Mrs Jonathan Foster. Stories and Studies from the Chronicles and History of England. Darton, 1847.
Hall, Anna Maria. Stories of the Governess. Published for the Benefit of the Governesses’ Benevolent Institution and sold by J. Nisbet, 1852.
Hall, Anna Maria. Stories of the Irish Peasantry. W. and R. Chambers, 1840.
Hall, Anna Maria. Tales of Woman’s Trials. Houlston and Son, 1835.
Hall, Anna Maria. Tales of Woman’s Trials. J. B. Lippincott, 1889.
Hall, Anna Maria. The Buccaneer. R. Bentley, 1832.
Hall, Anna Maria. The Buccaneer. R. Bentley, 1840.
Hall, Anna Maria. The Fight of Faith. Chapman and Hall, 1869.
Hall, Anna Maria. The French Refugee. J. Macrone, 1837.