Amelia Opie
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Standard Name: Opie, Amelia
Birth Name: Amelia Alderson
Married Name: Amelia Opie
Pseudonym: N.
AO
, who was publishing at the end of the eighteenth century and during the earlier nineteenth century, is best known as a novelist, but was also a dramatist, poet, and short-story writer. The opinions expressed in her writings are often reactionary in gender terms, though she was brought up a Unitarian
and later became a Quaker
and an active Abolitionist.
Connections
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Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Smith | Sales were unexpectedly brisk. Reviews were positive and most emphasised that the stories here were true. Smith, Charlotte. “Introduction”. The Works of Charlotte Smith, edited by Michael Garner et al., Pickering and Chatto, 2005, p. xxix - xxxvii. xxxvi |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Theresa Kemble | The title alludes to Hannah Cowley
's very popular The Belle's Stratagem, 1780. MTK
's heroine, like hers, is lively and witty. Lady Emily spars verbally with her suitor O'Donolan, and keeps her freedom... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Charlton | The New London Review ranked this novel much above mediocrity although over-crowded with incident. It felt that MC
had made an error of judgement in putting into the mouths of her inferior personages what it... |
Leisure and Society | Mary Wollstonecraft | The painter John Opie
did a portrait of her at this time (now in Tate Britain
) which shows her wearing a fashionable, curled white wig. This seems to have been a studio prop, since... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Late in life EOB
ran a kind of salon which was remarkable for being bohemian and operating on a shoestring: with tea rather than wine (unlike the lavish salons of contemporary society hostesses like Lady Holland |
Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Lamb
worried intensely about the probable reception of Ada Reis, particularly the scenes in hell, and he tried to enlist William Gifford
of the Quarterly as an ally in pressuring Caroline to tone... |
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 | Anna Eliza Bray | The work sold well and received favourable reviews. Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall, 1884. 200 qtd. in Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 116: 54 |
Literary responses | Hester Mulso Chapone | Her brother John
wrote of the Praises that resound on all Sides following the publication of this book, though he regretted that reviewers, in praising the moral content, had ignored the literary style. qtd. in Myers, Sylvia Harcstark. The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1990. 231 |
politics | Annabella Plumptre | Three years later, in July 1794, the sisters stood on a platform with Amelia Alderson
, providing support as she made an anti-Whig, pro-Jacobin speech at Norwich. Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix. ix-x |
politics | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
went to the LondonWorld Anti-Slavery Convention in the company of Lady Byron
, Amelia Opie
, and Marion Reid
. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997. xii |
politics | Marion Reid | In June 1840, MR
attended the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London, together with Anna Brownell Jameson
, Amelia Opie
, and Lady Byron
. She was the only Scotswoman present. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997. xii Ewan, Elizabeth et al. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women : From the Earliest Times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press, 2006. |
politics | Anne Plumptre | Three years later, in July 1794, both sisters stood on a platform with Amelia Alderson
, providing support as she made an anti-Whig, pro-Jacobin speech at Norwich. Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix. ix-x |
Publishing | Ann Batten Cristall | Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld
and her brother
, Ann Jebb
, the future Amelia Opie
, Anna Maria Porter
, Mary Wollstonecraft
and her sister, Mary Hays
and her sister, a Mrs Spence who... |
Publishing | Emma Marshall | EM
participated to the full in her Quaker forebears' habit of commemorating the dead in writing. She wrote an article of personal reminiscence on Amelia Opie
(whom she remembered as elegant and commanding in appearance)... |
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Texts
Opie, Amelia. The Warrior’s Return, and Other Poems. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808.
Opie, Amelia. Valentine’s Eve. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816, 3 vols.