Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
In addition to meeting Dickens
as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC
and her husband met William Hazlitt
through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt
, and...
Anthologization
Mary Cowden Clarke
In 1848 MCC
may have contributed two pieces to A Book of Stories for Young People, along with Mary Howitt
and Anna Maria Hall
. But Richard D. Altick
believes the stories The Princess...
Friends, Associates
Anna Eliza Bray
Owing to her nervousness and delicate health AEB
did not socialize much; her literary friends were few though deeply valued, including L. E. L.
, John Murray
, Owen Rees
, and Anna Maria Hall
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The public was scandalized by their adulterous relationship. When the editor of his St. James's Magazine, Anna Maria Hall
, inquired after the health of his wife, Maxwell replied that she was defunct but...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Periodicals were vital to MEB
's career from the beginning. Having set out by regularly contributing sensational fiction to the Halfpenny Journal, she continued to provide articles in, for example, Punch and The World...
Education
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mary Elizabeth read early and voraciously, polishing off Anna Maria Hall
's three-volume Marian when she was only seven. By nine she was reading Scott
and Dickens
. One of the family servants introduced her...
MA
's circle of literary friends in London were influential in the publication of Billeted in Boulogne. Anna Maria Hall
, her countrywoman, introduced MA
to W. H. Wills
, the editor of Household...
Cultural formation
Grace Aguilar
GA
's writings treat in detail the Jewish faith to which she strongly adhered, and she often focuses on the persecution and prejudice which Jews suffered throughout the nineteenth century, as well as historically. As...
Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol.
16
, pp. 137-48.
138
reader, was educated chiefly by her mother and directed in her studies by both parents. Anna Maria Hall
reported that GA
had learned to read almost by intuition
Hall, Anna Maria, and Frederick William Fairholt. Pilgrimages to English Shrines. Arthur Hall, Virtue.
453
and...
Friends, Associates
Grace Aguilar
Around this time her acquaintance deepened with Camilla Crosland
.
Crosland, Camilla. Landmarks of a Literary Life, 1820-1892. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
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
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...