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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Trollope | FT
's years of literary success were marked by tragedy: she lost two of her children to consumption, and eventually lost a third. Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research, 1983. 21: 324 Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979. 135 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catharine Parr Traill | Many of CPT
's early works were published with the Quaker publishing firm Harvey and Darton
. Peterman sees in these works the influence of Virgil
, Izaak Walton
, Mary Russell Mitford
, and Gilbert White
. New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research, 1990. 332 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susan Hill | The setting of this book is an imaginary village called Barley Oxfordshire, based on the village where SH
lived. Consciously or not, it follows Mary Russell Mitford
and Flora Thompson
in its celebration of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Writing to Mary Russell Mitford
of her hope that they might meet, HM
acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. qtd. in L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols. 1: 263-4 |
| 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... |
| Leisure and Society | Frances Arabella Rowden | Rowden made the most of the cultural opportunities offered by London; she took pupils to attend the theatre and visit picture galleries, and continued to frequent these attractions when Mitford
visited her after leaving school. |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Heyrick | In the year 1827 EH
's reading included all of Jane Austen
's completed novels and Mary Russell Mitford
's Our Village. Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895. 179 |
| Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind
against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence
the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer... |
| Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett
received her beloved cocker spaniel, Flush, as a gift from Mary Russell Mitford
. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990. 101 Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2024, 14 vols. to date. 5: xii |
| Literary responses | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | Mary Russell Mitford
, stuck fast in this novel within a month or two of its publication, called it that do-me-good piece of vulgarity. 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: 364 |
| Literary responses | Lady Rachel Russell | As love-letters, they made a great and immediate impression on their readers. Yet later this year Mary Russell Mitford
wrote of LRR
with dislike. Mitford found her heavy, preachy, and prosy. As a writer, she... |
| Literary responses | Frances Trollope | Heineman
claims reception was poor in England as well as America because the cultural climate in the former was beginning to resemble that of the latter; because of this, controls on women's behaviour were seen... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Mary Russell Mitford
called this novel an attempt to portray the poet Byron
, recognisable through several anecdotes familiarly told about him, in very black and exaggerated colors. She maintained that Joanna Baillie
, as... |
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