Mary Brunton
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Standard Name: Brunton, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Balfour
Married Name: Mary Brunton
Pseudonym: The Author of Self-Control
MB
, whose early-nineteenth-century writing career was cut short by her early death, was a highly intelligent, moralistic novelist, who also left journals, prayers, and some letters.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hamilton | While in Wales they visited Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(the ladies of Llangollen) and in the Lakes they stayed with Elizabeth Smith
and her family. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols. 1: 152-4 Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1811. 151 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | Hamilton, herself a conservative, set about de-demonizing EF
's political reputation. She had good success in persuading her friends that Mrs Fletcher was not the ferocious Democrat she had been represented, and that she neither... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Henrietta Maria Bowdler | Although HMB
was provoked to write by William Hayley
's unpleasant Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids, 1785, she gives a mixed message. This begins with an epigraph drawn from Elizabeth Hamilton |
Literary responses | Barbara Hofland | In the early 1820s BH
seems to have been at the apex of her career. She was appreciated not only by her friend Mary Russell Mitford
(who believed that nobody else could combine so much... |
Literary responses | Catherine Sinclair | Timothy C. Baker
has noted that recent scholarship follows CS
's contemporaries in overlooking her adult novels. For the monument-makers, Sinclair's fame rests on a combination of civic and literary achievement; curiously, however, her widely... |
Reception | Jane Austen | JA
's letters divide her critics. Many find them deplorably lacking in dignity and especially in sympathy; others believe that she renders the intimacies of oral relationship into written texts more successfully than almost any... |
Textual Features | Lady Charlotte Bury | LCB
's novel opens sixteen years after the elopement, with Lady Howard, divorced and re-married, deeply wounded when her daughter is forbidden to play with the daughter of a more respectable peeress. For her, as... |
Textual Production | Ann Taylor Gilbert | She altered the magazine's policy, reviewing Mary Brunton
's Self-Control, and then Maria Edgeworth
's Tales, I forget which series, qtd. in Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, 1874, 2 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N . 1: 203 |
Textual Production | Sara Maitland | SM
provided an introduction to Antonia White
's The Hound and the Falcon (the novel in which White describes her return to the Roman Catholic Church
), when it was reprinted by Virago
in 1982... |
Textual Production | Catherine Fanshawe | The letters that CF
sent to Anne Grant
are not extant, but Grant's side of the correspondence leaves no doubt that the two were in constant dialogue about new books they had read, and their... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Grant | She likes her reading to be strenuous: she recommends Jane Austen
's Mansfield Park as light reading, Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, 3 vols. 2: 68 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Katharine Elwood | Some of the British women writers discussed in the text remain well-known, but others have slipped into obscurity. Memoirs includes: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
, Griselda Murray
, Frances Seymour, Lady Hertford
, Hester Lynch Piozzi |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susan Ferrier | SF
's letters deal mainly with day-to-day occurrences, but her literary opinons are always worth having. She comments on several works by Lady Charlotte Campbell (later Bury)
. Reading Austen
's Emma in 1816 (the... |
Travel | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Like other nineteeth-century travellers (the trend is visible in Mary Brunton
in 1812) she visited social and charitable institutions—[s]chools, hospitals, prisons, and asylums—as well as historic houses, castles, and beauty spots. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 183 |
Timeline
9 August 1838: The Hampstead circulating library, intended...
Writing climate item
Texts
Brunton, Mary. Discipline. Manners and Miller; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814, 3 vols.
Brunton, Mary. Discipline. R. Bentley, 1842.
Brunton, Mary. Emmeline. Manners and Miller; John Murray, 1819.
Maitland, Sara, and Mary Brunton. “Introduction”. Self-Control, Pandora, 1986, p. ix - xi.
Brunton, Alexander, and Mary Brunton. “Memoir”. Emmeline, Manners and Miller; John Murray, 1819.
Brunton, Mary. Self-Control. Manners and Miller; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811, 2 vols.