Two years later Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
told Sydney Morgan
that HW
was married to a very handsome man, who was willing to make an honest woman of her.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen, 1862, 2 vols.
2: 223
The couple concealed their marriage...
Friends, Associates
Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
On her first visit to Paris, she met Germaine de Staël
, and formed lasting friendships with the marquise de Villette
(Voltaire
's adopted daughter) and with Elizabeth Patterson
(an American heiress, the abandoned...
Literary responses
Harriette Wilson
The Memoirs immediately produced extraordinary sensations in fashionable life,
qtd. in
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
199
with anguished responses from ex-lovers and moralists, as well as from people in the book trade and people in HW
's own sex trade. Crowds...