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Mary Russell Mitford
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Standard Name: Mitford, Mary Russell
Birth Name: Mary Russell Mitford
MRM
, poet, playwright, editor, letter-writer, memoirist, and—in just one work—novelist, is best known for her sketches of rural life, especially those in the successive volumes of Our Village (whose first appeared in 1824). Her greatest success came when, under the pressure of her father's inexhaustible capacity for running up debt, she turned from the respected genres of poetry and plays to work at something more popular and remunerative.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | Talk about the conflict at Greta Hall circulated through England's literary circles. Henry Crabb Robinson
, Sarah Burney
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, and Mary Russell Mitford
were all privy to this gossip. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998. 4 |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Arabella Rowden | Mitford
introduced St Quintin
and his wife
to her life-story as a well-born, well-educated, and well-looking French emigrant, and a woman whom she thought French, good-natured, red-faced . . . much muffled up in shawls... |
| Friends, Associates | Henrietta Euphemia Tindal | Friends with whom she maintained contact by correspondence included her neighbour Mary Russell Mitford
, who commented to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
that HET
had been wrong in her theory about the authorship of Jane Eyre... |
| Friends, Associates | Henry Peter Baron Brougham | Brougham had a number of friends among women writers. He was at primary school in Edinburgh with Susan Ferrier
(who, however, declined to acknowledge him later, probably for political reasons). His political work brought him... |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett
was introduced to Mary Russell Mitford
, who became a lifelong friend, by her cousin John Kenyon
; she met Wordsworth
the following day. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990. 80-2 Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2024, 14 vols. to date. 3: 320 |
| Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
| Friends, Associates | Barbara Hofland | BH
retained at least one life-long friendship from her Sheffield or Attercliffe days: with the poet and novelist Sarah Pearson
, who had been her neighbour there. Pearson's will charged Hofland with the task of... |
| Friends, Associates | Caroline Clive | CC
remained a close friend of her early passion Catherine Gore
. qtd. in Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Clive, Caroline. Caroline Clive. Editor Clive, Mary, Bodley Head, 1949. 266 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Jane Vardill | While she lived in London AJV
moved in culturally active circles. She later described the poet Eleanor Anne Porden
(who lived not far away) as her dear friend, and was one of those who... |
| Health | Anna Maria Hall | Mary Russell Mitford
reported AMH
to be very ill: she was, however, using this report to back a thesis that supporting a family was too much for women's health. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols. 2: 161-2 |
| Health | Amelia Opie | Mary Russell Mitford
thought AO
much changed in April 1813: paler, thinner, and older looking. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols. 1: 181 |
| Health | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Her strength and spirit were further weakened by her grief over the death of her longtime though lately somewhat estranged friend, Mary Russell Mitford
. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Grace Aguilar | The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate Aguilar, Grace. Woman’s Friendship. D. Appleton and Company, 1891. 13 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Hall | The finished work was greatly influenced by Mitford's
1824 Our Village and the introduction is addressed to Mitford. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988. 348 Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997. 3 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
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