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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Ellen Wood
As she began to establish herself as a writer, EW became a friend of her fellow authors Anna Maria Hall , Julia Kavanagh , and Mary Howitt . The latter wrote her a complimentary letter...
Friends, Associates Sarah Tytler
ST 's literary friends by now included Dora Greenwell , Ellen (Mrs Henry) Wood , Anna Maria (Mrs S. C.) Hall , and George MacDonald .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Isabella Spence
During the 1820s Spence and Benger, then past their youth and each living on a pittance, were associated in running a salon on the model of those of the rich (like Lady Holland) or the...
Friends, Associates Lydia Howard Sigourney
On this trip LHS added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , Samuel Rogers , Anna Maria Hall and her husband , and Jane and Thomas Carlyle
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...
Cultural formation Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Despite her Irish birth, she disliked and distanced herself from the Irish: Anna Maria Hall 's husband, Samuel Carter Hall , reported her saying that she needed to fumigate her dining-room after entertaining Daniel O'Connell
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.
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Bleiler, Everett F., editor. Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
1: 271
Leisure and Society Julia Pardoe
JP associated with Frances Trollope , and corresponded with Mrs John Hearne , Samuel Carter Hall and Anna Maria Hall , Francis and Margaret Bennoch , and Sir John Philippart .
Szladits, Lola. “A Victorian Literary Correspondence: Letters from Julia Pardoe to Sir John Philippart, 1841-1860”. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Vol.
55
, pp. 367-78.
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Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
166: 297-8
Friends, Associates Margaret Oliphant
MO and her husband sometimes attended parties with such writers as Samuel Carter Hall , Anna Maria Hall , Dinah Mulock (later Craik) , and Mary Howitt .
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
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Friends, Associates Florence Nightingale
By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau . She also knew John Stuart Mill , Giuseppe Garibaldi , James Clark , Edwin Chadwick , William Rathbone , Julia Wedgwood , Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Friends, Associates Mary Russell Mitford
She knew most of the literary women of her day, including Felicia Hemans (who wrote to ask her for an autograph),
L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett.
1: 173-4
Jane Porter , Amelia Opie (that warm-hearted person),
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: 213
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Russell Mitford
Our Village is often said to have inaugurated its genre of small-scale, local-colour sketch writing, but (apart from Washington Irving 's Geoffrey Crayon's Sketch Book, 1819) it owes an obvious debt to the work...
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...
Friends, Associates Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Anna Maria Hall , who called frequently, said that whatever might be true as to the scandal, Marguerite Blessington never lost an opportunity of doing a gracious act, or saying a gracious word.
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey.
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Blessington...

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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.