Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix.
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In 1802, in London and...
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Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Sydney Morgan's genius for social life, and for forging relations with famous and celebrated people, continued from youth to age. On her second visit to London she met the bluestocking hostess the Countess of Cork and Orrery
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Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
This sketch was based on an actual bird belonging to Morgan's patron the Countess of Cork and Orrery
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Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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Catherine Gore
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told Sydney Morgan
that her publisher, Bentley
, had both thought of the subject and suggested the title. But with this self-exculpation she admitted that her protagonist was based on Mary, Countess of Cork and Orrery