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  Mary Russell Mitford - LoveToKnow 1911
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1787-1855), English novelist and dramatist, only daughter of Dr George Mitford, or Midford, was born at Alresford, Hampshire, on the 16th of December 1787.
Miss Mitford lived in close attendance on him, refused all holiday invitations because he could not live without her, and worked incessantly for him except when she broke off her work to read him the sporting newspapers.
Miss Mitford's youthful ambition had been to be "the greatest English poetess," and her first publications were poems in the manner of Coleridge and Scott (Miscellaneous Verses, 1810, reviewed by Scott in the Quarterly; Christine, a metrical tale, 1811; Blanche, 1813).
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 Mary Russell Mitford Essay
Mary Russell Mitford's contribution to the genre of the essay was the "sketch" of rural life.
Mitford's form of the essay as rural sketch was a response to the cultural, social, and political conflicts of her time.
Mitford's essaysketches were, however, written against the cultures and associated class interests of both the metropolis and the regions.
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  Mary Russell Mitford - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Mary Russell Mitford (December 16, 1787 - January 10, 1855), was an English novelist and dramatist.
Her father spent his wife's fortune in a few years; then he spent the greater part of £20,000, which in 1797 his daughter, then aged ten, drew as a prize in a lottery; from then on he lived on a small remnant of his fortune and the proceeds of his daughter's literary career.
He is thought to have inspired Mary with the keen delight in incongruities, the lively sympathy, self-willed vigorous individuality, and the womanly tolerance which inspire so many of her sketches of character.
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 Berkshire History: Biographies: Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1865)
Mary Russell Mitford was the only child of George Mitford, a descendant of an ancient Northumberland family, and of Mary Russell, an heiress, the only surviving child of Dr. Richard Russell, a richly beneficed clergyman, who held the livings of Overton and Ashe, both in Hampshire, for more than sixty years.
By March 1820, Dr. Mitford's irregularities had reduced his family to the utmost poverty and it was necessary for Mary to turn to literature for their means of livelihood.
Miss Mitford also wrote 'Mary Queen of Scots,' a scene in English verse (1831), and an opera libretto, 'Sadak and Kalascado,' produced in 1835; and she contributed several dramatic scenes to the 'London Magazine' and other periodicals.
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 WILLIAM MITFORD - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM MITFORD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Mitford, therefore, being very much his own master, was easily led to prefer amusement to study.
While his book was progressing, Mitford was a member of the House of Commons, with intervals, from 1785 to 1818, and he was for many years verderer of the New Forest and a county magistrate; but it does not appear that he ever visited Greece.
William Mitfords cousin, the Rev. John Mitford (1781-1859), was editor of the Gentlemans Magazine and of various editions of the English poets.
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 MARY RUSSELL MITFORD - LoveToKnow Article on MARY RUSSELL MITFORD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Miss Mitford lived in close attendance on him, refused all holiday invitations because he could not live without her, and worked incessantly for him except when she broke off her work to read him the sporting newspapers.
Miss Mitford eventually removed to a cottage at Swallowfield, near Reading, where she died on the 10th of January 1855.
Miss Mitfords youthful ambition had been to be the greatest English poetess, and her first publications were poems in the manner of Coleridge and Scott (Miscellaneous Verses, 1810, reviewed by Scott in the Quarterly; Christine, a metrical tale, 1811; Blanche, 1813).
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Mary Mitford was indeed happy in her friends, as happy as she was unfortunate in her nearer relations.
Mitford used to drive to Whitley and back for her airing), the dust rises on the fresh keen wind, the scent of the ripe corn is in the air, the cows stoop under the elm trees, looking exactly as they do in Mr.
To the Russells, who had nursed Miss Mitford, comforted her, by whose gates she dwelt, in whose arms she died, Ben brought, as a token of remembrance, an old shilling volume of one of G. James's novels, which was all he could bear to part with.
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 Mitford Mary Russell - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Mitford Mary Russell - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855), English writer, born in Alresford (now New Alresford), Hampshire, England.
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 Mary Russell Mitford -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Mary Russell Mitford (December 16, 1787 - January 10, 1855), was an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English (Someone who writes novels) novelist and (Someone who writes plays) dramatist.
The only daughter of Dr George Mitford, or Midford, she was born at Alresford, (A county of southern England on the English Channel) Hampshire.
Her place in (Click link for more info and facts about English literature) English literature is as the author of Our Village, a series of sketches of village scenes and characters vividly drawn.
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 Mary Russell Mitford - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
She eventually moved to a cottage at Swallowfield, near Reading, Berkshire, where she remained for the rest of her life.
Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1836-1854
Mary Russell Mitford;: The tragedy of a blue stocking,
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Her father spent wife's fortune in a few years; then spent the greater part of £20 000 in 1797 his daughter then aged ten drew a prize in a lottery ; from then on he lived on small remnant of his fortune and the of his daughter's literary career.
He is to have inspired Mary with the keen in incongruities the lively sympathy self-willed vigorous and the womanly tolerance which inspire so of her sketches of character.
She was to him refused all holiday invitations because could not live without her and worked for him except when she broke off read him the sporting newspapers.
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Should you be reading the life of Mary Russell Mitford in the Orlando textbase, you will be able to click on the name of her teacher, Frances Arabella Rowden, and discover that Rowden (herself a published writer in several genres) was a significant force in the forming of four other published women writers.
Statements in the Mary Russell Mitford documents are available as contributions to a timeline on Hampshire (which begins with a thirteenth-century abbess interested in drainage works, and ends lectures by Kathleen Raine and P. James, and on the road protest at Twyford Down).
Then both Mitford's cramped workspace in her tiny crumbling cottage, and her passionate pursuit of literary earnings, could be combined with her family's financial vicissitudes into one part of a complex story bringing in the financial pressures felt by other writers of the period, like L.E.L., Caroline Norton, and Marguerite Blessington.
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 Geometry.Net - Book_Author: Mitford Miss
Mary was a very precocious child who could read before she was three years old.
Miss Mitford, who was known as Decca and who died in 1996, dedicated thework to her husband with gratitude for his untiring collaboration.
Miss Mitford, who was known as Decca and who died in 1996, dedicated the work to her husband with gratitude for "his untiring collaboration." In a 1993 interview, Miss Mitford said that initially she had not been interested in the subject.
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 Mitford, Nancy --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Nancy Mitford was one of six daughters (and one son) of the 2nd Baron Redesdale; the family name was actually Freeman-Mitford.
Mitford, known as "Decca" to friends and family, was one of seven children in an eccentric...
The English novelist, dramatist, poet, and essayist Mary Russell Mitford is chiefly remembered for her delightful, unpretentious sketches of English village life.
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Russell blättert die Entwicklung des philosophischen Denkens anhand der herausragenden Persönlichkeiten der Philosophiegeschichte auf und bezieht dazu stets auch den politischen, gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Hintergrund mit ein.
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Thirteen detective tales written by William Russell who very little is known about despite being regarded as a pioneer in the art of detective fiction.
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Mary Russell Mitford was born on the 16th of December 1787.
On one of the many occasions when Miss Mitford writes to her trustee imploring him to sell out the small remaining fragment of her fortune, she says, 'My dear father has, years ago, been improvident, is still irritable and difficult to live with, but he is a person of a thousand virtues.
We have the letter to her mother about 'Foscari,' from which I have quoted; and on the occasion of the production of 'Rienzi' at Drury Lane (two years later in October 1828), the letter to Sir William Elford when the poor old mother was no longer here to rejoice in her daughter's success.
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In order to secure that sense of cozy exclusivity that Mitford celebrates in her picture of a country neighborhood, somebodies of all descriptions have to be edited out.
And the process of reading Emma does come to seem, thanks to this allusiveness, what Mitford said it was: a return to a neighbourhood in which we have long been settled.
Its characters, from strangers, quickly come to seem acquaintance of long standing, whose prospects "are a kind of common concern"—Austen's readers learn in their turn to perform the ceremonies of repatriation that Highbury enacts in adopting that feckless bird of passage, Frank Churchill, as a native son.
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 Mary Russell Mitford Biography / Profile
Mary Russell Mitford was the only child of George Mitford, a country physician who was better known as a gambler and spendthrift than as a practitioner of medicine.
This man had, apparently, the charm to inspire an attitude of unquestioning adoration in his frail but talented daughter.
A single-minded devotion to her father stands out as the main theme of Mitford’s personal life and as the direct practical motivation of her writing, for in an attempt to recoup the second fortune squandered by her father she turned from the unprofitable composition of poems to the writing of those...
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 Geometry.Net - Book_Author: Mitford Mary Russell
Mary Mitford's Reading: A Selection of Views of Reading, 1798-1845, with Quotations from the Works of Mary Russell Mitford by Mary Russell Mitford, January, 1975
Mitford, Mary Russell (17871855), English writer, born in Alresford (now New Alresford), Hampshire, England.
Mitford, Mary Russell (17871855).—Poetess and novelist, born at Alresford, Hants,daughter of a physician, without practice, selfish and extravagant, who
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 MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (... - Online Information article about MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (...
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Browning) in 1836, and the acquaintance ripened into a warm friendship.
Miss Mitford's youthful ambition had been to be " the greatest English poetess," and her first publications were poems in the manner of See also:
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 Geometry.Net - Book_Author: Mitford Mary Russell
Mitford, Mary Russell (17871855) The Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts;January 1, 1998 Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855) English author.
Mary Russell Mitford (17871855), Novelist and dramatist Sitter in 2 portraits Novelistand dramatist, best known for Our Village, her sketches of rural life
Mitford, Mary Russell (17871855), English writer, born in Alresford (now NewAlresford), Hampshire, England.
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 Amazon.ca: Books: My Garden: Selected from the Letters and Recollections of Mary Russell Mitford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Mitford (1787-1855), friend to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and John Ruskin, was well known in England as a poet, dramatist and author of several books on country life.
As Marsack (The Cave of Making), former editorial director of Carcanet Press, points out in her gracefully succinct introduction, Mitford's literary efforts were mainly a means of supporting her spendthrift father and ailing mother.
She was a keen observer of detail; her joy in experiencing nature is timelessly infectious.
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 mary russell mitford - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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Mitford, Mary Russell : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info]
MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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 Russell Mitford, Mary. - OUR VILLAGE. - The marketplace for secondhand, rare, and out-of-print books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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Introduction by William J Roberts - author of The Life and Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford.
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 Mary Russell Mitford Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com
Mary Russell Mitford Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com
Poetess and novelist, born at Alresford, Hants, daughter of a physician, without practice, selfish and extravagant, who ran through three fortunes, his own, his wife’s, and his daughter’s, and then lived on the industry of the last.
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 AllRefer.com - Mary Russell Mitford (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Mary Russell Mitford (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Mary Russell Mitford, English Literature, 19th Century, Biographies
Her first volume of poetry (1810) sold well despite adverse criticism.
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 Books and Writers - Mary Russell Mitford
Memoirs and Letters of Charles Boner, with Letters of Mary Russell Mitford to Him
The Life of Mary Russell Mitford, related in a Selection from her Letters (1870 Bentley) - 3 vols
M C Hill : Mary Russell Mitford and Her Surroundings (1920)
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