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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Residence | Frances Trollope | During the summers, FT
travelled like many other English expatriates to the Baths of Lucca. qtd. in Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979. 250 |
| Residence | Mary Ann Browne | |
| Textual Features | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington
, doyenne of the albums... |
| Textual Features | Annie S. Swan | The indices to its bound volumes list both tales and serial tales without naming the authors—even though, as named on the pages where their work actually appears, they include such luminaries as Robert Buchanan
and... |
| Textual Features | Christian Isobel Johnstone | Johnstone's Edinburgh Magazine was heavily political in content, while Tait's was designed to have greater appeal to the general reader. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Her response to him made it clear that she wanted a literary friendship and exchange. He resisted her attempts to cast him as her tutor—as well he might, being younger and the less established poet... |
| Textual Features | Marghanita Laski | The book aims at literary recuperation. Here ML
blends analysis with celebration, but she recalls her marginalised writers primarily to raise questions about the present state of writing for children. She says that her subjects... |
| Textual Features | Susanna Moodie | Roughing It in the Bush is a collection of sketches about a difficult adjustment to pioneer life in Canada, based on real incidents in SM
's life before her move to Belleville and embellished... |
| Textual Production | Frances Arabella Rowden | In October 1811 FAR
was considering whether to undertake an English translation of Charlemagne by Lucien Bonaparte
. Mary Russell Mitford
suggested that they should do it jointly, dividing up the piece (she thought she... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | The idea of self-improvement through writing and reading correlates to the strong emphasis in EG
's fiction on education and the impact of environment. This was undoubtedly influenced by a Unitarian intellectual background indebted to... |
| Textual Production | Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton | Edward Bulwer
's hugely successful The Last Days of Pompeii appeared, as by the author of Pelham, in three volumes; another historical novel, Rienzi (based on the play of the same name by Mary Russell Mitford |
| Textual Production | Henrietta Euphemia Tindal | HET
contributed the introduction to Henry Chorley
's edition of Mary Russell Mitford
's letters (published by March 1872) and her Story of Kitty Canham appeared in July 1880 in Temple Bar. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2315 (1872): 297 Tindal, Henrietta Euphemia. Rhymes and Legends. Richard Bentley and Son, 1879. xi Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols. |
| Textual Production | Mary Howitt | This venture seems to have sprung from William's brief, financially damaging involvement in The People's Journal, 1846-8, whose chaotic business practices were a serious handicap to its programme for rendering workers prudent, sober, independent... |
| Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans
in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father
's ideas for a largely anecdotalintroduction to Elizabeth Gaskell
's Cranford. Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol. 2 , 1980, pp. 285-7. 293 |
| Textual Production | Caroline Norton | In 1832 CN
began editing the newly-launched La Belle Assemblée; or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995. 88 Known both as La Belle Assemblée (which had first appeared in 1806 but had petered out) and... |
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