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.
Painting of Mary Russell Mitford by John Lucas, c. 1853, based on another by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1824, which was disliked for its assertive look. Here an oval frame is painted in; Mitford wears a white ruffled cap around her face, a white collar pinned with a cameo, a grey gown and brown shawl.

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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.
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Known both as La Belle Assemblée (which had first appeared in 1806 but had petered out) and...
Textual Production Caroline Norton
This was published for its first two years in France, Germany, and the United States, and then from 1836 onwards in England. Among CN 's signed contributors were Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
Mary Russell Mitford commented on this letter. Holford's modern biographer knew of no surviving copy of this work; OCLC lists only a single copy, at Cornell University .
Butts, Dennis. Mistress of our Tears, A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland. Scolar Press, 1992.
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OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Elizabeth Isabella Spence
The title-page quotes Mary Russell Mitford 's recent Blanche of Castile (in Narrative Poems on the Female Character). EIS dedicated her work to Lady Hamlyn-Williams (Diana Anne née Whitaker, wife of the second baronet)...
Textual Production Barbara Hofland
BH 's correspondence with Mary Russell Mitford (whose earliest surviving letter dates from 25 May 1820) reveals her as an active and eclectic reader. The two women exchanged responses to Anna Maria Porter , Amelia Opie
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford , Elizabeth Gaskell , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Camilla Crosland , Anthony Trollope , George Eliot , Julia Kavanagh
Textual Production Alice Meynell
She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen inferior to Charlotte Brontë , accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:...
Textual Production Ann Batten Cristall
The publisher Joseph Johnson issued by subscription ABC 's Poetical Sketches: an important text in women's Romanticism.
Her title was the same as that of William Blake 's first publication, 1783. Critic Richard C. Sha
Textual Production Christian Isobel Johnstone
She included her own work, along with that of Gore , Mitford , Howitt , Mrs Fraser , and Catherine Crowe . Several editions appeared, up to an eleventh in 1862.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Textual Production Betty Miller
From this followed the commission to edit a volume of hithertoto unpublished letters from Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford .
Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xviii.
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The result was Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: The Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett...
Textual Production Emma Parker
The title-page mentions three of her previous works and quotes Mary Russell Mitford on the topic of romantic Spain.
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
Susanna Strickland (later SM ) sent Mary Russell Mitford a poetic eulogy; of herself she wrote humbly: Never for me will lyre like thine be strung.
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: 196-7
Textual Production Frances Trollope
Some of FT 's letters were published by A. G. K. L'Estrange in The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford in 1882.
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: 159ff
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
A family friend, James Black, took the manuscript to London where he sold it for ten pounds.
Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999.
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At an early age she told Mary Russell Mitford : A desire for fame appears to me...
Textual Production Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
BBBD was a conscientious and entertaining letter-writer with a large circle of correspondents. The Plymouth and West Devon Record Office holds a collection of her correspondence from the 1840s with Frances Parker, Countess of Morley

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