From 791a8bfeb470a44493c2d145427ac34c21cd13f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ebeshero Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 01:50:06 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new SI staged for launch --- si_Full_Staged/si.xml | 1920 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 1692 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-) diff --git a/si_Full_Staged/si.xml b/si_Full_Staged/si.xml index 680a120..2cc9623 100644 --- a/si_Full_Staged/si.xml +++ b/si_Full_Staged/si.xml @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ - Site Index for the Digital Mitford project. Date: 2023-08-08T19:52:07.495484-04:00. - Count of all @xml:ids in the current file: 3222. First digital edition in TEI P5, launched on 19 August 2013. + Site Index for the Digital Mitford project. Date: 2024-09-03T01:47:59.042979-04:00. + Count of all @xml:ids in the current file: 3329. First digital edition in TEI P5, launched on 19 August 2013. Digital Mitford: The Mary Russell Mitford Archive @@ -37,9 +37,6 @@ License -

Information on named entities in this file has been extracted from files in the Digital Mitford Archive.

@@ -52,6 +49,8 @@ + 107 new entries and many updated entries in historical persons, organizations, places, plants/animals, and bibl entries, largely from completing work on Mitford’s Journal, as well as staff updates. + Establishing new Si-local file. Correcting great farmhouse entries. Updating staff entries. proofing fict people sections. preparing to add new ids from Hofland letters, Weston Grove, Antigone poems. 433 new entries with updates from work on Mitford's plays, OV backlists, and Journal. A few stubs fleshed out to make visible areas of continued research. 400+ new entries and updates from 2022 and 2023 Journal, Foscari, and OV backlists and student assistants 200+ entries culled from 2020 and 2021 work across the Mitford project. @@ -77,7 +76,7 @@
- + Booth Alison @@ -88,9 +87,7 @@ University of Virginia - Professor of English, Booth directs the Collective Biographies of - Women (CBW) project at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities - and Scholars’ Lab, with supported from the English Department, an ACLS Digital + Brown-Forman Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Digital Humanities Center at the UVa Library, Booth directs the Collective Biographies of Women (CBW) project, with support from the English Department, an ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship, and an NEH Level II Startup Grant, Office of Digital Humanities. An annotated bibliography, led to a relational database of the more than 1200 books and 8000 persons represented in the 13,000 @@ -114,16 +111,29 @@ - University of St Andrews + University of St. Andrews - One of the Digital Mitford project’s founding editors, Alexandra - Drayton earned a Ph.D. from the University of St Andrews. She has consulted the + One of the Digital Mitford project’s founding editors, Alexandra + Drayton earned a Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews. She has consulted the team on prosopography details in letters encoding and the 1824 first edition of Our Village. Research interests include: representations of Gypsies in Romantic and Victorian literature and art, the picturesque and the work of Mary Russell - Mitford. + Mitford. + + + + Dia + Aliou + Research Assistant + + + + State University of New York, Potsdam + + + Ali Dia graduates in 2025 with a B.A. in Communication from the State University of New York at Potsdam. He completed internships with Dr. Wilson as a Digital Mitford Research Assistant in fall 2024 and spring 2025, focusing on organizing archival photographs and on research. He also took Dr. Wilson's COMP 305, Editing & Revising: Digital Texts in spring 2024. @@ -151,7 +161,20 @@ - + + + Normington + Alyssa + Research Assistant + + + + State University of New York, Potsdam + + + Alyssa Normington graduates in 2025 with a B.F.A. in Creative Writing from the State University of New York at Potsdam. She completed internships with Dr. Wilson as a Digital Mitford Research Assistant between spring 2024 and spring 2025, focusing on literary transcribing and research on versions of the dramatic sketch, The Painter's Daughter. She also took Dr. Wilson's COMP 305, Editing & Revising: Digital Texts in spring 2024. + + Gates Amy @@ -167,10 +190,9 @@ Amy L. Gates is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Missouri Southern State University. Her teaching and research are centered around eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British - literature, with a focus on British Romanticism. For the Digital Mitford - project, she works on letters and is the editor of Mitford’s play Inez de Castro. + literature, with a focus on British Romanticism. She has attended Digital Mitford Coding Schools and has workd on letters and is the editor of Mitford’s play Inez de Castro. - + Longmuir Anne @@ -182,11 +204,10 @@ Kansas State University - - Anne Longmuir is Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University. Anne specializes in Victorian literature and has published more than ten articles and book chapters on Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Wilkie Collins, among others. She also co-edited Victorian Literature: Criticism and Debates (Routledge 2016) with Lee Behlman (Montclair State University). Anne is currently working on a book on the gender politics of John Ruskin's economic theory, which will explore his relationship with several nineteenth-century women writers, including Mary Russell Mitford. Anne is working on Mitford's letters and Our Village for the Digital Mitford Project. + Anne Longmuir is Professor of English at Kansas State University. Anne specializes in Victorian literature and has published more than ten articles and book chapters on Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Wilkie Collins, among others. She also co-edited Victorian Literature: Criticism and Debates (Routledge 2016) with Lee Behlman (Montclair State University). Anne is currently working on a monograph on the gender politics of John Ruskin's economic theory, which will explore his relationship with several nineteenth-century women writers, including Mary Russell Mitford. Anne is working on Mitford's later letters and on Our Village for the Digital Mitford Project. she has also mentored students transcribing and researching letters. - + Bolton Carol @@ -194,12 +215,12 @@ - Programme Director: English Loughborough + Honorary Fellow in English Loughborough University - + Parisian Catherine @@ -215,7 +236,7 @@ research has focused on a a range of subjects including the first White House library, Frances Burney, Alice in Wonderland, and eighteenth-century book trade ledgers. She is an - associate professor in the Department of English, Theatre, and Foreign + Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, and Foreign Languages at UNC Pembroke, where she teaches principles of literary studies, women’s literature and composition. @@ -234,11 +255,9 @@ Catherine S. Cox teaches at the University of Pittsburgh’s Johnstown campus, offering classes in biblical and medieval literature and culture, history of the English language, and contemporary critical theory, her - areas of professional publication as well. She recently joined the Mitford - project, which she sees as an exciting opportunity to create digital resources - in a collaborative environment. + areas of professional publication as well. she attended a Digital Mitford Coding School. - + Robinson David @@ -265,7 +284,7 @@ - + Schierenbeck Daniel @@ -281,9 +300,9 @@ Charles and Mary Lamb, Mary Mitford, Mary Shelley, and Jane West. He is currently at work on project that examines the impact of conservative religous discourse on the cultural - politics and aesthetics of early ninteenth-century British literature. + politics and aesthetics of early ninteenth-century British literature. He attended the Digital Mitford Coding School and contributed to proofing plays. - + Saglia Diego @@ -296,7 +315,7 @@ - + Ulin Don @@ -336,7 +355,7 @@ - + Raisanen Elizabeth @@ -350,9 +369,7 @@ - Elizabeth Raisanen is the Director of - Undergraduate Advising and an Instructor of Literature in the Robert D. - Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. A specialist in the women + Elizabeth Raisanen is the Assistant Dean of Advising & Strategic Partnerships and an Instructor of Literature in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. A specialist in the women writers of the British Romantic era, Elizabeth’s research interests also extend to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, Romantic drama, and the Digital Humanities. She has presented papers on Mitford’s @@ -393,20 +410,34 @@ State University of New York, Potsdam - Hayley Denis graduates in 2025 with a B.A. in Creative Writing from the State University of New York at Potsdam. She completed an internship with Dr. Wilson as a Digital Mitford Research Assistant in spring 2023, focusing on letter transcribing and research. + Hayley Denis graduates in 2025 with a B.A. in Creative Writing and a minor in Film Studies from the State University of New York at Potsdam. She completed internships with Dr. Wilson as a Digital Mitford Research Assistant between spring 2023 and spring 2025, focusing on letter transcribing and research. - + - Kellogg - Hannah + Hammer + Nathan + Louis Research Assistant - - - LeMoyne College - - - Hannah Kellogg graduates in 2025 with a B.S. in Biology from LeMoyne College. She worked with Dr. Wilson as a Digital Mitford Research Assistant in summer 2023, focusing on plant and animal research, and on photographing and archiving illustrations of Mitford's works. + Nathan Hammer is a student at Penn State Behrend. Started + working on Mitford’s Journal in October 2023 + assigned to encode and check the typescript entries from the Coles transcript + and to develop digital mapping of locations mentioned in the Journal. He is currently exploring + technology and digital entertainment, pursuing a B.A. in Digital Media, Arts, + and Technology @ Penn State Behrend, with a planned graduation year of + 2025. + + + + Bills + Hadleigh + Jae + Research Assistant + + Hadleigh Jae Bills is a student at Penn State Behrend. Started + working on Mitford’s Journal in October 2023 on transcription and + proof-checking between the typescript and photofacsimile. She is working + towards a B.A. in Digital Media, Arts, and Technology. @@ -439,13 +470,13 @@ The Anazoa Educational Project - James Rovira is founder of the Anazoa Educational Project and Bright Futures Educational Consulting. He has taught British literature, Creative Writing: + James Rovira is founder of the Anazoa Educational Project and Bright Futures Educational Consulting. He taught British literature, Creative Writing: Poetry, Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction, and Literary Theory at Tiffin University in Tiffin, OH. His research interests include William Blake, Søren Kierkegaard, British and Danish history and literature, poetry, and theory. His book, Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety is available in - both hardcover and paperback from Bloomsbury/Continuum. + both hardcover and paperback from Bloomsbury/Continuum. He attended the Digital Mitford Coding School and edited Watlington Hill. @@ -467,13 +498,12 @@ theGraveyard , involves the collection and study of data collected from on-site gravestone inscriptions, burial records, and gravesite maps. Jonathan is a - member of the international English honor society Sigma Tau Delta, and a research assistant on the Digital Mitford + member of the international English honor society Sigma Tau Delta and was a research assistant on the Digital Mitford Project. - + Bourrier - Karen Consultant @@ -482,12 +512,12 @@ University of Calgary - Karen Bourrier is an assistant professor at the University of - Calgary. She is currently working on a biography and digital edition of the - letters of best-selling Victorian novelist Dinah Mulock Craik. + Karen Bourrier is a professor at the University of + Calgary. She is working on a digital edition of the + letters of best-selling Victorian novelist Dinah Mulock Craik and has written a biography of Craik. She attended a Digital Mitford Coding School and worked on transcibing a manuscript letter and on site index entries. - + Donovan-Condron Kellie @@ -501,7 +531,7 @@ Babson College - Kellie Donovan-Condron writes primarily about the intersection of urban literature and the Gothic in the Romantic era. Her research interests are an interdisciplinary mix of literature, history, and material culture. Additional areas of particular interest include women's writing, consumerism and consumption in literature, Southern Gothic, and questions about genre and social networking. In the summer of 2013, she was selected to be a summer scholar in the National Endowment for the Humanities seminar Reassessing Romanticism. She is coding Mitford's epic poem Blanch for the Digital Mitford Archive, and has co-authored with Elisa Beshero-Bondar an article analyzing Mitford's correspondence network across her lifetime. Previously, she worked on a grant to digitize a collection of 17th- and 18th-century maps and ephemeral materials through the Tufts University Perseus Project. + Kellie Donovan-Condron writes primarily about the intersection of urban literature and the Gothic in the Romantic era. Her research interests are an interdisciplinary mix of literature, history, and material culture. Additional areas of particular interest include women's writing, consumerism and consumption in literature, Southern Gothic, and questions about genre and social networking. In the summer of 2013, she was selected to be a summer scholar in the National Endowment for the Humanities seminar Reassessing Romanticism. She has co-authored with Elisa Beshero-Bondar an article analyzing Mitford's correspondence network across her lifetime. Previously, she worked on a grant to digitize a collection of 17th- and 18th-century maps and ephemeral materials through the Tufts University Perseus Project. @@ -517,7 +547,7 @@ State University of New York at Potsdam - Lisa M. Wilson is Professor in the Department of English and Communication at SUNY Potsdam, where she has taught since 2005. Her areas of interest include transatlantic Romantic and Victorian era literature, particularly women’s writing and popular forms such as the Gothic novel and the literary ballad. She is also interested in book history and bibliographical studies, particularly in the study of authorship in the long nineteenth century (1780-1900). She has published in European Romantic Review, Romanticism on the Net (now RaVon), Romantic Circles, Romantic Textualities, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a monograph on Romantic-period authorship and literary celebrity. Her work on Digital Mitford thus far includes editing and coding Mitford’s Introduction to her collected Dramatic Works (1854), a critical memoir that recounts the author’s influences and experiences at Covent Garden and Drury Lane in the 1820s and 30s. It also includes researching Mitford’s publication history for the site’s working bibliography, particularly tracking the migration of Mitford’s stories from their first publication to their later reappearances in collections and periodicals. A Founding Editor of Digital Mitford, she and her teams of student research assistants have been at work since 2013 on transcribing, coding, and researching Mitford’s letters from 1819 to the early 1820s and on Mitford’s early poems, including her 22 sonnets and her long poem, Weston Grove. She is currently teaching a course on digital textual editing for junior and senior undergraduates and directing undergraduate students internships for Digital Mitford. + Lisa M. Wilson is Professor in the Department of English at SUNY Potsdam, where she has taught since 2005. Her areas of interest include transatlantic Romantic and Victorian era literature, particularly women’s writing and popular forms such as the Gothic novel and the literary ballad. She is also interested in book history and bibliographical studies, particularly in the study of authorship in the long nineteenth century (1780-1900). She has published in European Romantic Review, Romanticism on the Net (now RaVon), Romantic Circles, Romantic Textualities, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a monograph on Romantic-period authorship and literary celebrity. Her work on Digital Mitford thus far includes editing and coding Mitford’s Introduction to her collected Dramatic Works (1854), a critical memoir that recounts the author’s influences and experiences at Covent Garden and Drury Lane in the 1820s and 30s. It also includes researching Mitford’s publication history for the site’s working bibliography, particularly tracking the migration of Mitford’s stories from their first publication to their later reappearances in collections and periodicals. A Founding Editor of Digital Mitford, she and her teams of student research assistants have been at work since 2013 on transcribing, coding, and researching Mitford’s letters from 1817 to the early 1820s and on Mitford’s early poems, including her 22 sonnets and her long poems, Weston Grove and Antigone: A Portrait in Verse. She is currently teaching a course on digital textual editing for junior and senior undergraduates and directing undergraduate student internships for Digital Mitford. @@ -541,7 +571,7 @@ Megan Hughes was Elisa Beshero-Bondar’s Green Scholar (or research assistant) before she graduated from Pitt-Greensburg in 2014. She earned an M. F. A. in Writing and Producing for Television at Loyola Marymount University and is working as a writer and producer in Los Angeles. - + Creech Melinda @@ -552,10 +582,10 @@ Baylor University - PhD in progress at Baylor University, Graduate Assistant at the - Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University + Independent scholar with PhD in English and MA in Museum Studies at Baylor University, Assistant at the + Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University. - + Zimmer Mary @@ -564,17 +594,29 @@ - Editorial Institute, Boston University + Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Mary Erica Zimmer comes to Digital Mitford through her interests - in scholarly editing, data visualization, textual scholarship, literary - influence, and media change. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in Editorial Studies at + Mary Erica Zimmer is Lecturer in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Concourse Program and teaches in MIT's Digital Humanities Lab. She attended Digital Mitford's Coding School and came to Digital Mitford through her interests in scholarly editing, data visualization, textual scholarship, literary + influence, and media change. She has a Ph.D. Editorial Studies from Boston University’s Editorial Institute and is also associated with several projects through the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Early Modern Digital Agendas group (). - + + + Spaulding + Meghan + Research Assistant + + + + State University of New York, Potsdam + + + Meghan Spaulding graduates in 2025 with a B.S. in Childhood Education/Early Childhood Education with an English specialization from the State University of New York at Potsdam. She completed internships with Dr. Wilson as a Digital Mitford Research Assistant in summer and fall 2024, focusing on letter transcribing and research. She also took Dr. Wilson's COMP 305, Editing & Revising: Digital Texts in spring 2024. + + Smith Martha @@ -646,7 +688,7 @@ Quinton Reed is an alumnus of the University of Montevallo, where he attended from 2013 to 2017. He currently serves as the editor for Gold Orchid Publishing in Ceredigion, Wales, and is a freelance editor and copywriter in Portland, Oregon. His areas of interest include psychoanalytical and disability studies, particularly in postmodern literature, as well as Gothic and dystopian literature. He is also interested in the life sciences, particularly zoology and anatomy, and the significance of animals and illness in literature. He worked on the Mitford Archive while enrolled in Samantha Webb’s Digital Romanticism course in Spring 2017, and continues to assist the project in a consulting role. - + Parker Rebecca @@ -658,23 +700,14 @@ Loyola University Chicago - Rebecca Parker completed an M.A. in Digital Humanities at Loyola University in Chicago and a B.A. in English Literature and - Social Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, where she has worked as an - assistant for the Center for the Digital Text. She co-edited the 1819-1820 portion of the digital edition of Mary Russell Mitford’s journal of 1819-1823. Her own digital archive project, The - Restoration of Nell Nelson, started in spring 2014 as research for her - capstone thesis in History. The Nell Nelson archive intends to restore the - importance of a female investigative reporter that exposed the harmful effects - of industrialization in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century. Parker’s - interest in Digital Humanities stemmed from her involvement on the Digital - Mitford Project working as Dr. - Beshero-Bondar’s undergraduate Green Scholar. - - + Rebecca Parker completed an M.A. in Digital Humanities at Loyola University in Chicago and a B.A. in English Literature and Social Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, where she has worked as an assistant for the Center for the Digital Text and taught at Digital Mitford Coding School. She co-edited the 1819-1820 portion of the digital edition of Mary Russell Mitford’s Journal of 1819-1823. Her own digital archive project, The Restoration of Nell Nelson, started in spring 2014 as research for her capstone thesis in History. The Nell Nelson archive intends to restore theimportance of a female investigative reporter that exposed the harmful effects of industrialization in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century. Parker’s interest in Digital Humanities stemmed from her involvement on the Digital Mitford Project working as Dr. Beshero-Bondar’s undergraduate Green Scholar. She is the Marketing and Development Co-Coordinator at Fort Wayne's Center for Nonviolence. + + Webb Samantha Ph.D - Professor of English + Professor Emeritus of English Founding Editor Fiction @@ -683,22 +716,22 @@ University of Montevallo - Samantha Webb is Professor of English, specializing in British Romantic literature, with a particular focus on the intersection of food, agricultural politics, and ecology. She has published in The European Romantic Review, Romanticism, Essays in Romanticism, and elsewhere. At the University of Montevallo, she taught courses in British Romantic literature, children’s literature, folk and fairy tales, and global literature. She is a Founding Editor and Fiction Section Editor for Digital Mitford. + Samantha Webb is Professor Emritus of English, specializing in British Romantic literature, with a particular focus on the intersection of food, agricultural politics, and ecology. She has published in The European Romantic Review, Romanticism, Essays in Romanticism, and elsewhere. At the University of Montevallo, she taught courses in British Romantic literature, children’s literature, folk and fairy tales, and global literature. She is a Founding Editor and Fiction Section Editor for Digital Mitford. - + Cantwell Sara Active Consultant - M.A. in English and Communication, completed 2017. State University of New York, + M.A. in English and Communication, State University of New York, Potsdam - M.F.A. in Creative Writing completed 2019. Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier + M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Vermont College of Fine Arts - Sara Cantwell received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, with concentrations in poetry and fiction. In fall 2015, she began work on an M.A. in English and Communication from SUNY Potsdam and joined the Digital Mitford project as a Research Assistant. Her M.A. thesis included a book history and analysis of the later poetry of Jorie Graham. In Fall 2017, she joined the Department of English and Communication at SUNY Potsdam as an Adjunct Instructor and continues on Digital Mitford as a Consultant. She continues to work on Site Index development, on Mitford’s early poems, her self-representation as a creative writer, and her representation and appropriation in contemporary culture. + Sara Cantwell received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, with concentrations in poetry and fiction writing. In fall 2015, she began work on an M.A. in English and Communication from SUNY Potsdam and joined the Digital Mitford project as a Research Assistant. Her M.A. thesis included a book history and analysis of the later poetry of Jorie Graham. In Fall 2017, she joined the Department of English and Communication at SUNY Potsdam as an Adjunct Instructor and continues on Digital Mitford as a Consultant. She also works as the digital Assessment coordinator in the School of Education and Professional studies. She regularly attends Digital Mitford Coding Schools and continues to work on Site Index development, Mitford’s poems, her self-representation as a creative writer, and her representation and appropriation in contemporary culture. @@ -707,15 +740,20 @@ R. Research Assistant + + + Penn State Erie, The Behrend College + + Savannah Ricks is a coding research assistant who started in October 2022 working on Mitford’s Journal of 1819-1823 on transcription, proof-checking between the typescript and photofacsimile, as well as researching Site Index entries to contribute to the project. She is also helping with interface design for the project, designing new stylesheets and helping with the JavaScript for the Journal. She is working on a B.A. in - Digital Media, Arts, and Technology at Penn State Behrend. + Digital Media, Arts, and Technology at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. - + Triplette Stacey @@ -760,12 +798,17 @@ S. Research Assistant + + + Penn State Erie, The Behrend College + + Tyler Akam is a student filmmmaker and coding research assistant who started in October 2022 working on Mitford’s Journal of 1819-1823 on transcription, proof-checking between the typescript and photofacsimile, and researching Site Index entries to contribute to the project. He is also contributing ideas for the interface design for the project. He is working on a - B.A. in Digital Media, Arts, and Technology at Penn State Behrend. + B.A. in Digital Media, Arts, and Technology at PPenn State Erie, The Behrend College. @@ -787,11 +830,14 @@ Bennett, and one to Chorley. - British Library - Holds around 125 letters, as well as manuscripts of Mitford’s + British Library + British Museum + After 1973, the British Library formally separated from the British Museum, + but papers filed with the British Museum stamp are now held by the British Library. + Holds around 125 letters, Mitford’s handwritten journal of 1819-1823, as well as manuscripts of Mitford’s plays submitted to the Examiner’s Office after 1825, including - Charles I, Foscari, Rienzi, - Inez de Castro, and Sadak and Kalasrade. + Charles I, Foscari, Rienzi, + Inez de Castro, and Sadak and Kalasrade. Boston Public Library @@ -1052,7 +1098,7 @@ Besides benefiting from his tireless research on 18th- and 19th-century drama and its performance, we are grateful to Frederick Burwick for encouraging the scholarly editing of Mary Russell Mitford, for recognizing the long-range benefit to scholarship of a digital scholarly edition, and for advising on the formation of the Digital Mitford project. - + O’Donnell Molly C. @@ -1078,7 +1124,7 @@ Editor - Ph.D. English in progress, expected 2018.Michigan State + Ph.D. EnglishMichigan State University @@ -1101,7 +1147,7 @@ Rebecca Nesvet’s other digital humanities projects include the general editorship of a student-produced edition of James Malcolm Rymer’s - The String of Pearls, or the Barber of Fleet-street + The String of Pearls, or the Barber of Fleet-street (1850), the first complete documentary edition of this source of the legend of Sweeney Todd; and Science and Art, a Farce, by Malcolm Rymer (1820), edited by James Malcolm Rymer (1842), in Scholarly Editing: The Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing 38 (2017). Nesvet’s research on James Malcolm Rymer, Romanticism, travel literature, and drama appears in the Keats-Shelley Journal, Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism, Notes and Queries, Studies in Travel Writing, Women’s Writing, The Review of English Studies, Literature Compass, Shakespearean International Yearbook, and, in Romania, American, British, and Canadian Studies. She won the International Conference on Romanticism’s 2012 Lore Metzger Award for the best graduate paper. She is a Founding Editor for Digital Mitford. @@ -1364,6 +1410,19 @@ Heather Long completed a B.A. in English and was enrolled in the M.S.T. program at State University of New York, Potsdam in 2015. She was a Digital Mitford Research Assistant in 2015, tasked with transcribing letters. + + + Kellogg + Hannah + Research Assistant + + + + LeMoyne College + + + Hannah Kellogg graduates in 2025 with a B.S. in Biology from LeMoyne College. She worked with Dr. Wilson as a Digital Mitford Research Assistant in summer 2023, focusing on plant and animal research, and on photographing and archiving illustrations of Mitford's works. + Sarsfield @@ -1638,8 +1697,7 @@ Natalie LoRusso graduated in May 2015 with a B.A. in English Literature from the State University of New York at Potsdam; she also completed - minors in Classical Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies. She worked as a Research Assistant on Digital Mitford from Spring 2014 to - Spring 2015. She completed a Master’s in + minors in Classical Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies. She worked as a Research Assistant on Digital Mitford from Spring 2014 toSpring 2015. She completed a Master’s in library and information science at Syracuse University in 2017 and currently works as a Reference Librarian and library resource educator at Syracuse University.

@@ -1818,7 +1876,7 @@ Writing and a minor in Literature from the State University of New York at Potsdam. She worked as a Digital Mitford Research Assistant in Fall 2017 and Spring 2018. Her interests include scholarly editing, paleography, and British and American fiction of the Romantic period. She works in the tourism and leisure industry. - + Cameron Tyler @@ -1834,7 +1892,7 @@ 1819-1823 on transcription, proof-checking between the typescript and photofacsimile, and contributing ideas for styling a web reading interface for the Journal. He graduated in 2023 with a B. A. in Digital Media, Arts, and - Technology at Penn State Behrend. + Technology at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. @@ -1942,7 +2000,7 @@ State University of New York, Potsdam - Zakiya Deroche graduated in 2019 with a B.A. in Communication and a minor in Business from the State University of New York at Potsdam. She worked as a Digital Mitford Research Assistant in Spring 2019, focusing on digital image organizing tasks. She plans to pursue a career in a Communication. + Zakiya Deroche graduated in 2019 with a B.A. in Communication and a minor in Business from the State University of New York at Potsdam. She worked as a Digital Mitford Research Assistant in Spring 2019, focusing on digital image organizing tasks. @@ -2057,10 +2115,12 @@ Needham Francis R + + Francis R. Needham was librarian - and secretary to the Duke Wellington (based at Stratfield Saye in Hampshire). - He was a passionate Mitfordian and worked tirelessly to try and collect + and secretary to the Duke Wellington, while based at Stratfield Saye in Hampshire. + He was a passionate Mitfordian and worked tirelessly to collect Mitford’s letters. He corresponded with W. A. Coles and W. J. Roberts, two Mitford biographers, and may have also corresponded with Vera Watson, the most reliable of Mitford’s @@ -2084,16 +2144,21 @@ Reading Central Library’s collection, apparently to catalog the letters. + + unknown + Someone, apparently other than Mitford, perhaps cataloging letters and describing them, who + left grey pencil marks on her letters now in the Beinecke Library, Yale University collection. + unknown Someone, apparently other than Mitford, perhaps cataloging letters and describing them, who - left grey pencil marks on her letters now in the The John Rylands + left grey pencil marks on her letters now in the The John Rylands Library collection. unknown Someone, apparently other than Mitford, perhaps cataloging letters and describing them, who - left red crayon marks on her letters now in the Reading Central Library’s + left red crayon marks on her letters now in the Reading Central Library’s collection. @@ -2109,7 +2174,7 @@ corresponded with Francis Needham while compiling his biography; some of that correspondence is preserved among the latter’s own papers held at the Reading Central - Library. + Library. Vera Watson @@ -2117,10 +2182,10 @@ Watson Vera + Early Mitford critic and author of the biography Mary Russell Mitford -

@@ -2154,8 +2219,10 @@ Anstruthers - The family of Col. - Anstruther. Associated with Reading. + The family of Col. Anstruther. + Associated with Reading. Includes Colonel + Anstruther, Mrs. Anstruther, and Miss Anstruther + Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy @@ -2222,6 +2289,21 @@ Bluestockings A circle of female writers and intellectuals formed around the salons hosted by Elizabeth Montagu, Frances Boscawen, and Elizabeth Vesey between 1755 and 1795. The group came to include such writers as Hannah More, Hester Chapone, Sarah Fielding, and others, emphasizing education, enlightened conversation, improvement, and exchange. While the network was thought of as female, the Bluestocking Circle did include some of the leading male figures of the day, particularly Samuel Richardson. Source: ODNB. + + the Body family + the Bodys + + Body + + + Mitford mentions the Bodys as a family in her Journal of + 1819 - 1823. She visits the Bodys and mentions Mrs. Body. We + know that one member of the Body family is Richard Body, but it is unclear the identity of the other + members. The Digital Mitford project is uncertain whether there is a + relationship between the Ann Body we + identified from 1840s and 50s records and the Bodys that Mitford knew in the + 1820s. + Henry G. Bohn Henry G. Bohn was a publishing firm located in London and founded by George Henry Bohn, the son of a German bookbinder. He started the Bohn's Standard Library series, which eventually included more than seven hundred titles. In 1848, the firm produced a two-volume new series reprinted edition of Mitford's Our Village. Bohn's volume one (new series) included substantial selections from Our Village volumes one and two, and part of volume three; Volume two (new series) included selections from the remainder of volume three plus volumes four and five. He sold the Bohn's series (including his firm's edition of Our Village) in 1864 to publishers Bell and Daldy, afterwards the firm of George Bell & Sons; both firms continued to reprint editions of Our Village based on the Bohn series model into the 1870s. @@ -2255,11 +2337,15 @@ crime rates. The group was incorporated into the Metropolitan Police Force in 1839. + + Brent family + Includes Joel, Lucy, and Lizzy. + British Army The principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom. - + Prominent ancient English family whose chief estate, Beaurepaire House, was located near Bramley. The family traces its lineage back to the age of William the Conqueror, and was in @@ -2409,6 +2495,13 @@ James Crissy James Crissy was a publishing firm located in Philadelphia with premises at 4 Minor Street. First publisher of The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse in 1841. + + the Crowthers + Crowther + Contains Mr. Crowther and + Mrs. Crowther + + the Dearsley family Dearsleys @@ -2425,6 +2518,13 @@ J. M. Dent and Sons + + the Dickinsons + Dickinson + Contains Charles + Dickinson and Mrs. + Dickinson. + the Drover family Drovers @@ -2551,9 +2651,10 @@ Haywards - Likely includes Mr. William Hayward the elder + Likely includes Mr. William Hayward the elder & his spouse Mrs. W. Hayward, a brewing family connected with inns in - Watlington. Their son William Hayward the younger, eventually married Jane Webb. + Watlington. Their son William Hayward the younger, + eventually married Jane Webb. Mitford’s Journal mentions a little girl, probably their daughter. In the Journal she mentions that their son, Henry Hayward married Anne Dodd on 27 December 1819. High Court of Justice @@ -2564,6 +2665,12 @@ him and signed the death warrant were subsequently termed the Regicides. Source: Britannica. + + the Holdens + Holden + Potentially includes Miss Holden, John Holden, and Henry Holden. + Mentioned by Mitford in her Journal on July 2 1819. + Holland House circle Holland House set @@ -2611,6 +2718,11 @@ + + Ilsley Coursing Society + Hunting club frequented by George Mitford + and friends, presumably located in Ilsley. + ISIS Publishing, Ltd. ISIS Publishing, Ltd. is a publishing firm located in London, specializing in large-print and audio books; currently a subsidiary of Ulversoft; publisher of a large print reprint of Mitford's works in their ISIS Clear Type Classics series. @@ -2625,6 +2737,11 @@ Jacobites Supporters of the Stuart cause. Named after the line of Jacob, that is, the descendants of James I. + + the James Family + the James's + James + J. B. Lippincott J. B. Lippincott was a publishing firm located in Philadelphia. Publisher of a 1904 reprint of Mitford's Country Stories. Source: WorldCat. @@ -2804,6 +2921,12 @@ Newbery. Surname variously spelled Newbery and Newberry, although the first is preferred. + + the Newells + Newell + Includes Mr. Newell and + Mrs. Newell. + William P. Nimmo & Co. William P. Nimmo & Co. was a publishing firm located in Edinburgh; flourished 1840s to 1890s. In 1881, the firm published a collection of stories from Mitford's Our Village. Source: WorldCat. @@ -2845,6 +2968,12 @@ + + the Perrys + Perry + Likely includes James + Perry and, before November 1821, his daughter Horatia Perry. + Court of Pope Pius VII @@ -2906,7 +3035,7 @@ The private arts institution The Royal Academy of Arts was founded by George III on 10 December 1768, at the behest of architect Sir William Chambers. Chambers and other artists and - architects sought to establish a British national Society for promoting the + architects sought to establish a British national Society for Promoting the Arts of Design, a society that would sponsor an annual exhibition (later the Summer Exhibition) as well as a School of Design (later the Royal Academy Schools.) Thirty-four founding members were elected; today, the society elects @@ -2927,7 +3056,7 @@ Cavaliers - Supporters of Charles I and the Crown in the English Civil Wars. Also called Cavaliers, originally a perjorative term invented by the Parliamentarians but later embraced by the Royalists themselves. + Supporters of Charles I and the Crown in the English Civil Wars. Also called Cavaliers, originally a perjorative term invented by the Parliamentarians but later embraced by the Royalists themselves. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington @@ -3011,6 +3140,11 @@ + + the Simonds + Simonds + Potentially the Symonds mentioned on December 19 1820. Containing Elizabeth Blackall Simonds, William Blackall Simonds, and Henry Simonds. + the Slades Slade family @@ -3084,6 +3218,13 @@ absorbed and reorganized the Tory Party and retained the party nickname. + + the Tuppen Family + the Tuppens + Tuppen + The Tuppens include Captain + William Tuppen and his spouse Mrs. Tuppen. + Twickenham Coach Stage coach that travelled to Twickenham. @@ -3151,6 +3292,12 @@ 1820s. + + the Westbrooks + Westbrook + As recorded in her Journal, Mitford met the Westbrooks on 26 July 1820, + and dined with them on August 18 1820. + Weylandites Weyland supporters. On March 16, 1820, an election in Reading @@ -3232,6 +3379,7 @@ Baltimore, Maryland, USA + Actor who appeared in Mitford's plays, Julian at Covent Garden Theatre in 1823 and Charles @@ -3255,6 +3403,7 @@ <occupation type="explorer"/> <occupation type="literary"/> <occupation type="scholar"/> + <occupation type="theater"/> <occupation type="theater" subtype="composer"/> <note resp="#lmw">Author of <title ref="#Travels_Acerbi">Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and @@ -3328,7 +3477,7 @@ <occupation type="literary"/> <occupation type="scholar"/> <occupation type="literary" subtype="essayist"/> - <note resp="#lmw">Barrister, historian, and author of a literary essay in which he speculates on the identity of the author of the Waverley Novels.</note> + <note resp="#lmw">Author of a literary essay in which he speculates on the identity of the author of the Waverley Novels.</note> <note> <ref target="http://viaf.org/viaf/15130330"/> </note> @@ -3487,7 +3636,7 @@ </death> <occupation type="government" subtype="monarch"/> <note resp="#ebb #rnes"> - <persName ref="#Victoria_Queen">Queen Victoria</persName>'s first cousin and spouse, whose death at the age of forty-eight led her to a prolonged period of mourning as the <soCalled>Widow at Windsor.</soCalled> + <persName ref="#Victoria_Queen">Queen Victoria</persName>'s first cousin and spouse, whose death at the age of forty-eight led her to a prolonged period of mourning as the <soCalled>Widow at Windsor</soCalled>. </note> <note> <ref target="http://viaf.org/viaf/25395950"/> @@ -3506,7 +3655,7 @@ <placeName>Taganrog, Russia</placeName> </death> <occupation type="government" subtype="monarch"/> - <note resp="#ajc">Emperor of Russia, <date from="1801" to="1825">1801-25</date> + <note resp="#ajc">Emperor of Russia, <date from="1801" to="1825">1801-1825</date>. </note> </person> <person xml:id="Alfieri_Vittorio" sex="m"> @@ -3602,7 +3751,7 @@ </persName> <note resp="#lmw">A correspondent of <persName ref="#MRM">Mary Russell Mitford</persName>. Date unknown. Dates unknown.</note> </person> - <person xml:id="Allin_Miss" sex="f"><!--done--> + <person xml:id="Allin_Miss" sex="f"> <persName>Miss Allin</persName> <persName> <surname>Allin</surname> @@ -3655,7 +3804,7 @@ <death when="-0478"/> <occupation type="literary"/> <occupation type="literary" subtype="poet"/> - <note resp="#lmw #rnes">Ionian lyric poet of the ancient world, later considered one of nine canonical Greek poets; known for composing bacchanalian and amatory lyrics and hymns. Associated with the poetic genre known as the Anacreontic Ode; many examples are drinking songs.</note> + <note resp="#lmw #rnes">Ionian lyric poet of the ancient world, later considered one of nine canonical Greek poets; known for composing bacchanalian and amatory lyrics and hymns. Associated with the poetic genre now known as the Anacreontic Ode; many examples are drinking songs.</note> <note> <ref target="http://viaf.org/viaf/100165204"/> </note> @@ -3716,10 +3865,21 @@ <persName>Colonel Anstruther</persName> <persName> <surname>Anstruther</surname> + <forename>David</forename> <roleName>Colonel</roleName> </persName> - <note resp="#lmw"> - <persName ref="#MRM">Mitford</persName> corresponded with him in <date when="1819">1819</date> and visited his daughter, <persName ref="#Anstruther_Miss">Miss Anstruther</persName>, in <placeName ref="#Reading_city">Reading</placeName>. Forename unknown. Dates unknown.</note> + <birth when="1750"><!-- 2024-06-18 hjb: His death records during 1825 says he was 75, + therefore he would have most likely been born in 1750. --> + <placeName>Buckinghamshire, England</placeName> + </birth> + <death when="1825"> + <placeName>Reading, Berkshire, England</placeName> + </death> + <note resp="#hjb"> + <ref target="https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/79120268/person/340115721863/facts"/> + </note> + <note resp="#lmw #hjb"> + <persName ref="#MRM">Mitford</persName> corresponded with him in <date when="1819">1819</date> and visited his daughter, <persName ref="#Anstruther_Miss">Miss Anstruther</persName>, in <placeName ref="#Reading_city">Reading</placeName>. </note> </person> <person xml:id="Anstruther_Miss" sex="f"> <persName>Miss Anstruther</persName> @@ -3727,7 +3887,37 @@ <surname type="paternal">Anstruther</surname> <roleName>Miss</roleName> </persName> - <note resp="#lmw">Daughter of <persName ref="#Anstruther_Col">Colonel Anstruther</persName>. <persName ref="#MRM">Mitford</persName> visited her in <placeName ref="#Reading_city">Reading</placeName> in 1819. Forename unknown. Dates unknown.</note> + <note resp="#lmw #hjb">Daughter of <persName ref="#Anstruther_Col">Colonel + Anstruther</persName>. <persName ref="#MRM">Mitford</persName> visited + her in <placeName ref="#Reading_city">Reading</placeName> in 1819. Forename + unknown. Forename unknown. Dates unknown. Marriage records indicate that + a Mary Anstruther married a Henry Mitford who might be related to MRM, + but this Miss Anstruther may not be the same person.</note> + <!-- 2024-06-28 hjb: I am almost 100% certain that this is Mary Anstruther because + Mary is the daughter that married Henry Mitford... which would explain why + <persName ref="#MRM">Mary Mitford</persName> would know of the Anstruthers. + He could be a distant cousin. They are in the same family tree but I am struggling to + find out exactly how the two are related. + https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/79120268/person/340183901819/facts --> + </person> + <person xml:id="Anstruther_Mrs" sex="f"><!-- THIS WILL BE A NEW ENTRY IN THE SI --> + <persName>Mary Donaldson</persName> + <persName> + <surname type="paternal">Donaldson</surname> + <surname type="married">Anstruther</surname> + </persName> + <birth when="1760"> + <placeName>Aberdeenshire, Scotland</placeName> + </birth> + <death when="1827-07-20"> + <placeName>Bath, Somerset, , England</placeName> + </death> + <note resp="#hjb"> + <ref target="https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/79120268/person/340115721904/facts"/> + </note> + <note resp="#hjb">Wife of <persName ref="#Anstruther_Col">Colonel + Anstruther</persName>. Mother of <persName ref="#Anstruther_Miss">Miss + Anstruther</persName>.</note> </person> <person xml:id="Antinous" sex="m"> <persName>Antinous</persName> @@ -3837,7 +4027,6 @@ <occupation type="literary"/> <occupation type="literary" subtype="biographer"/> <occupation type="scholar"/> - <occupation type="scholar"/> <note resp="#lmw">Seventeenth-century antiquarian, naturalist, and writer. By the nineteenth century, best known as the author of biographical sketches known informally as <title level="m">Brief Lives or Aubrey's Lives. Mitford read Aubrey's Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: To Which are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the Seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of Eminent Men, which she admired for its style of biographical writing. @@ -3913,7 +4102,7 @@ - A writer and philosopher who made important methodological contributions to science, particularly championing empiricism. His philosophical works include the Novum Organum Scientiarum (New Organon), Advancement of Learning, Essays, and New Atlantis. A nephew of the powerful Elizabethan politician William Cecil, Lord Burleigh (or Burghley), he served as Member of Parliament for various constituencies at various times, as an advisor to Elizabeth's doomed favourite and failed usurper Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor under James I. In 1621, he was prosecuted for corruption and barred from further public service. He has been controversially reputed to be homosexual, on the grounds that a fellow M.P. called one of his (Bacon's) servingmen his catamite and bed-fellow. In 1845 (during Mitford's lifetime), this passage was published for the first time. + A writer and philosopher who made important methodological contributions to science, particularly championing empiricism. His philosophical works include the Novum Organum Scientiarum (New Organon), Advancement of Learning, Essays, and New Atlantis. A nephew of the powerful Elizabethan politician William Cecil, Lord Burleigh (or Burghley), he served as Member of Parliament for various constituencies at various times, as an advisor to Elizabeth's doomed favourite and failed usurper Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor under James I. In 1621, he was prosecuted for corruption and barred from further public service. He has been controversially reputed to be homosexual, on the grounds that a fellow M.P. called one of his (Bacon's) servingmen his catamite and bed-fellow. In 1845 (during Mitford's lifetime), this passage was published for the first time. @@ -3990,7 +4179,6 @@ - John (Jack) Bannister @@ -4053,7 +4241,7 @@ Victorian poet, long-time correspondent, mentee, and friend of Mary Russell Mitford. She published alongside Mitford in the Finden's Tableaux series of annuals. - + @@ -4086,7 +4274,7 @@ - + Sir John Barrow Barrow @@ -4269,8 +4457,6 @@ - - Author of the groundbreaking gothic novel, Vathek, art collector, and Member of Parliament. He was the Member for Wells from 1784-1790, and later for Hindon from 1790-1795 and again from 1806-1820. @@ -4280,8 +4466,8 @@ Sir William Beechey - William Beechey + William Sir @@ -4309,7 +4495,7 @@ - Founder of publishing firm George Bell & Sons In 1856 Bell took Frederick Daldy into partnership and the firm became Bell & Daldy; it reverted to George Bell and Sons upon Daldy's leaving the firm. The firm operated premises at 186 Fleet Street and later at 4 York Street, Covent Garden, in Londonthe former premises of George Henry Bohn. See George Bell, Publisher: A Brief Memoir by Edward Bell (London: Chiswick P, 1924). + Founder of publishing firm George Bell & Sons In 1856 Bell took Frederick Daldy into partnership and the firm became Bell & Daldy; it reverted to George Bell and Sons upon Daldy's leaving the firm. The firm operated premises at 186 Fleet Street and later at 4 York Street, Covent Garden, in Londonthe former premises of George Henry Bohn. See George Bell, Publisher: A Brief Memoir by Edward Bell (London: Chiswick P, 1924). John Bellamy @@ -4326,6 +4512,23 @@ + + Giovanni Battista Belzoni + + Belzoni + Giovanni + Battista + + + Padua + + + Gwato, Benin + + An Italian explorer and archaeologist. Wrote Narrative of the + Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and + Excavations, in Egypt and Nucia. Mitford mentions reading Belzoni’s Narrative in her Journal on 29 September 1821. + Mr. Bender @@ -4489,7 +4692,7 @@ - Scottish silk merchant, amateur poet, and literary and art patron. Dedicatee of Mitford's Dramatic Works (1854), and assisted in publication of Atherton and Other Tales (1854). Also the friend and patron of Haydon and Hawthorne. + Scottish wholesale silk merchant, amateur poet, and literary and art patron. Dedicatee of Mitford's Dramatic Works (1854), and assisted in publication of Atherton and Other Tales (1854). Also the friend and patron of Haydon and Hawthorne. @@ -4537,7 +4740,7 @@ Reading, Berkshire, England - Second wife of of Dr. Richard Valpy. They were married on 22 July 1781. + Second wife of of Dr. Richard Valpy. They were married on July 22, 1781. Richard Benyon @@ -4725,7 +4928,7 @@ - Pupil of the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon for about three years and attended the Royal Academy. Bewick was not a member of the family of Thomas Bewick the illustrator-engraver. + Pupil of the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon for about three years and attended the Royal Academy. Bewick was not a member of the family of Thomas Bewick, the illustrator-engraver. @@ -4747,7 +4950,7 @@ - Irish librettist and writer of musical theater and comic opera in London and for Drury Lane Theater. Commissioned + Irish librettist and writer of musical theater and comic operas in London and for Drury Lane Theater. Commissioned first in the Northumberland Fusiliers, then in the marines. Author of several very popular comedies, including @@ -4953,7 +5156,7 @@ Ann - A local farmer of Shinfield, farmed at Hyde end farm. Listed among the traders of Shinfield village and parish in 1847 and 1854 in the + A local farmer of Shinfield, farmed at Hyde End farm. Listed among the traders of Shinfield village and parish in 1847 and 1854 in the Post Office Directory of Berkshire , and noted by Needham on a list of local tradespeople. @@ -4970,7 +5173,7 @@ Wokingham, Berkshire, England - Needham tentatively identifies him as Mitford's landlord. Listed in 1841 census as a farmer residing in Wokingham, Shinfield parish; also listed as gentleman in Reading directories. Buried 12 March 1842. Source: ancestry.com. + Needham tentatively identifies him as Mitford's landlord. Listed in 1841 census as a farmer residing in Wokingham; also listed as gentleman in Reading directories. Buried 12 March 1842. Source: ancestry.com. David Bogue @@ -5126,7 +5329,7 @@ - Best known as the companion and biographer of Samuel Johnson, Boswell travelled extensively in Europe and Great Britain and published accounts of his travels in Corsica and in the Hebrides. Although never prominent in the legal profession, he was trained in Scotland and practiced as an advocate, and later also practiced at the English bar. Boswell represented the Scottish bookseller Alexander Donaldson in the important copyright case, Donaldson v. Beckett. Mitford compares his skill as a biographer unfavorably to that of Aubrey, preferring the latter's brevity. His voluminous journals and letters were rediscovered in the 1920s and edited and published in multiple volumes between 1950 and 1989. + Best known as the companion and biographer of Samuel Johnson, Boswell travelled extensively in Europe and Great Britain and published accounts of his travels in Corsica and in the Hebrides. Although never prominent in the legal profession, he was trained in Scotland and practiced as an advocate, and later also practiced at the English bar. Boswell represented the Scottish bookseller Alexander Donaldson in the important copyright case, Donaldson v. Beckett. Mitford compares his skill as a biographer unfavorably to that of Aubrey, preferring the latter's brevity. His voluminous journals and letters were rediscovered in the 1920s and edited and published in multiple volumes between 1950 and 1989. @@ -5172,7 +5375,7 @@ - Clergyman and poet, known for his sonnets as well as for his long poems including + Known for his sonnets as well as for his long poems including The Missionary published 1813 , The Grave of the Last Saxon published 1822 @@ -5211,8 +5414,7 @@ London, England - English Republican politician. Appointed Judge of the Sheriff's Court at the Guildhall in London, Bradshaw was the presiding judge who sentenced King Charles I to death on 27 January 1649 at Westminster Hall - . He later served the Commonwealth as President of the Council of State, but objected to Cromwell's establishment of a dictatorship and reacted by leaving politics. His death two years before the Restoration caused him to avoid execution, the fate of many of his fellow regicides. At the Restoration, his remains were exhumed and publicly displayed, along with those of Henry Ireton and other regicides who had died before 1660. + English Republican politician. Appointed Judge of the Sheriff's Court at the Guildhall in London, Bradshaw was the presiding judge who sentenced King Charles I to death on 27 January 1649 at Westminster Hall. He later served the Commonwealth as President of the Council of State, but objected to Cromwell's establishment of a dictatorship and reacted by leaving politics. His death two years before the Restoration caused him to avoid execution, the fate of many of his fellow regicides. At the Restoration, his remains were exhumed and publicly displayed, along with those of Henry Ireton and other regicides who had died before 1660. @@ -5225,7 +5427,7 @@ George - Proprietor or innkeeper of the George and Dragon Inn, Three Mile Cross. Listed among the traders of Shinfield in the + Proprietor or innkeeper of the George and Dragon Inn, Three Mile Cross. Listed among the traders of Shinfield in the Post Office Directory of Berkshire, 1847 and 1854 , and noted by Needham on a list of local tradespeople. @@ -5266,7 +5468,7 @@ buried at Three Mile Cross, Berkshire, England - There is no family information provided by Needham for Lizzy Brent, but she is likely related to others in the Brent family who are named and unnamed in Our Village. In a notebook kept from 1819 to 1823, Mitford refers twice to little Eliza. On each occasion, she is noting her third and fourth birthdays. In the story from Our Village, volume one, A Village Beau, the character of the little girl, Lizzy, is said to be the half-sister of Joel Brent. Lizzy Brent was likely the inspiration for Lizzy, the narrator's three-year old companion on many of her walks in Our Village. Note that her date of birth is tentative: Needham cites the Diary for the birth information but places a question mark next to the date of birth. Source: Needhamarchive, Reading Central Library. + There is no family information provided by Needham for Lizzy Brent, but she is likely related to others in the Brent family who are named and unnamed in Our Village. In a notebook kept from 1819 to 1823, Mitford refers twice to little Eliza. On each occasion, she is noting her third and fourth birthdays. In the story from Our Village, volume one, A Village Beau, the character of the little girl, Lizzy, is said to be the half-sister of Joel Brent. Lizzy Brent was likely the inspiration for Lizzy, the narrator's three-year old companion on many of her walks in Our Village. Note that her date of birth is tentative: Needham cites the Diary for the birth information but places a question mark next to the date of birth. Source: Needhamarchive, Reading Central Library. Howard Brenton @@ -5291,7 +5493,7 @@ Bridgwater Mr. - Local owner of meadows in Shinfield parish. Forename unknown. Dates unknown. + Local owner of a meadows in Shinfield parish. Forename unknown. Dates unknown. Source: Journal. Lucy Brightwell @@ -5339,8 +5541,7 @@ 1819 She married Bernard - Brocas in 1769, and renovated Wokefield Park after her husband purchased - it. + Brocas in 1769, and renovated Wokefield Park after her husband purchased it. @@ -5363,8 +5564,7 @@ Broghill defended his ancestral estate, Lismore Castle against an Irish rebellion in 1641-42, then defied his - Royalist family by fighting for the Parliamentary cause in the Civil War. He tortured prisoners and committed - other atrocities to intimidate the Royalists in Ireland. + Royalist family by fighting for the Parliamentary cause in the Civil War. He tortured prisoners and committed other atrocities to intimidate the Royalists in Ireland. After the war, he received confiscated property in Ireland. He changed allegiances again at the Restoration, and supported Charles II. Broghill's literary works include several stage plays and a @@ -5388,7 +5588,7 @@ 1854 edition of the Post Office Directory omits the shopkeeper occupation. - + Emily Brontë Brontë @@ -5458,7 +5658,7 @@ - Mitford read her Manners: A Novel. Not related to the Brooke family who were nonliterary local friends of the Mitfords. + Mitford read her Manners: A Novel. Not related to the Brooke family, who were nonliterary local friends of the Mitfords. @@ -5642,6 +5842,9 @@ + + + Alexander Brunton @@ -5867,7 +6070,7 @@ - Travelled throughout the near East studying Muslim culture, languages, and archaeology; he rediscovered the ruins of Petra in Jordan and the temples of Abu Simbel in Eqypt. His notes on his travels were published posthumously. Mitford read his Travels in Nubia. + Travelled throughout the near East under a variety of pseudonyms, studying Muslim culture, languages, and archaeology; he rediscovered the ruins of Petra in Jordan and the temples of Abu Simbel in Eqypt. His notes on his travels were published posthumously. Mitford read his Travels in Nubia. @@ -5941,10 +6144,8 @@ Burgess Mr. - - Forename unknown. The person who recommended to Mitford a particular volume - ofSophocles plays, mentioned in her letter to Talfourd of November 12 and 13, 1821 - . Dates unknown. + Forename unknown. Dates unknown. The person who recommended to Mitford a particular volume of Sophocles plays, mentioned in her letter to Talfourdof November 12 and 13, 1821. + Edmund Burke @@ -5955,9 +6156,7 @@ Dublin, Ireland - - Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England - + @@ -5965,7 +6164,7 @@ - Member of Parliament within the conservative wing of the Whig Party, he supported Catholic Emancipation, the impeachment of Warren Hastings, and the aims of the American Revolution; he later opposed the aims of the French Revolution and broke with the Foxite Whigs. Known for his oratorical and authorial skills, he authored a work on aesthetics, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, as well as works of political philosophy such as Reflections on the Revolution in France. He founded the Annual Review. Mitford reports reading a collection of Burke's works in early 1819, including his An Account of the European Settlements in America. + Member of Parliament within the conservative wing of the Whig Party, he supported Catholic Emancipation, the impeachment of Warren Hastings, and the aims of the American Revolution; he later opposed the aims of the French Revolution and broke with the Foxite Whigs. Known for his oratorical and authorial skills, he authored a work on aesthetics, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, as well as works of political philosophy such as Reflections on on the Revolution in France. He founded the Annual Review. Mitford reports reading several volumes of a collected edition of Burke's works in early 1819, including his An Account of the European Settlements in America. @@ -5997,10 +6196,8 @@ - - - 17th-century Whig clergyman and scholar who became Bishop of Salisbury and advisor to William III. Mitford read his Bishop Burnet's History of his Own Time. + Whig clergyman and scholar who became Bishop of Salisbury and advisor to William III. Mitford read his Bishop Burnet's History of his Own Time. @@ -6045,6 +6242,7 @@ Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England + Daughter of Charles Burney by his second wife, Elizabeth Allen. Half sister to Frances Burney. @@ -6060,7 +6258,7 @@ Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland - Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland + Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland @@ -6155,7 +6353,7 @@ Elemore Hall, Durham, England - The spouse of George Gordon, Lord Byron, and mother of mathematician Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace. Married in 1815, Lady Byron formally separated from her husband almost a year later, shortly after Ada's birth. She had left her marital household with her child, having endured many of Lord Byron's outbursts, taunts, and (it has been rumored) rape. She encouraged her daughter's mathematical pursuits, engaging the celebrity mathematician Augustus de Morgan to instruct her. Late in life, Lady Byron was befriended by an American visitor, Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe, who, after Lady Byron's death, defended her separation from her husband in Lady Byron Vindicated, for which Stowe was widely condemned. + The spouse of George Gordon, Lord Byron, and mother of mathematician Ada Augusta Byron King, Countess of Lovelace. Married in 1815, Lady Byron formally separated from her husband almost a year later, shortly after Ada's birth. She had left her marital household with her child, having endured many of Lord Byron's outbursts, taunts, and (it has been rumored) xexual assault. She encouraged her daughter's mathematical pursuits, engaging the hoted mathematician Augustus de Morgan to instruct her. Late in life, Lady Byron was befriended by an American visitor, Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe, who, after Lady Byron's death, defended her separation from her husband in Lady Byron Vindicated, for which Stowe was widely condemned. @@ -6214,7 +6412,7 @@ - Tory politician, supporter of William Pitt the Younger, and one of the founders of the political newspaper Anti-Jacobin. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under George IV from 10 April 1827 to 8 August 1827. Chancellor of the Exchequer under George IV from 10 April 1827 to 8 August 1827. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 13 September 1822 to 20 April 1827 and from 25 March 1807 to 11 October 1809. Leader of the House of Commons from 13 September 1822 to 20 April 1827, as successor to his rival Lord Castlereagh. President of the Board of Control (responsible for overseeing the East India Company) from 1816 to 1821. In 1820, he resigned from office in opposition to the treatment of Queen Caroline. Ambassador extraordinary to Portugal from October 1814 to June 1815. Treasurer of the Navy from 10 May 1804 to 23 January 1806. He holds the record for the shortest time in office of any U.K. Prime Minister (119 days). He is buried in Westminster Abbey. + Tory politician, supporter of William Pitt the Younger, and one of the founders of the political newspaper Anti-Jacobin. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under George IV from 10 April 1827 to 8 August 1827. Chancellor of the Exchequer under George IV from 10 April 1827 to 8 August 1827. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 13 September 1822 to 20 April 1827 and from 25 March 1807 to 11 October 1809. Leader of the House of Commons from 13 September 1822 to 20 April 1827, as successor to his rival Lord Castlereagh. President of the Board of Control (responsible for overseeing the East India Company) from 1816 to 1821. In 1820, he resigned from office in opposition to the treatment of Queen Caroline. Ambassador extraordinary to Portugal from October 1814 to June 1815. Treasurer of the Navy from 10 May 1804 to 23 January 1806. He holds the record for the shortest time in office of any U.K. Prime Minister--119 days. He is buried in Westminster Abbey. @@ -6251,7 +6449,7 @@ - Royal Navy officer who supported the aims of the American Revolution and radical and reformist causes in Great Britain. Corresponded with Thomas Jefferson. Wrote a pamphlet in 1776 advocating annual parliaments, the secret ballot, and universal manhood suffrage. Founder of the Society for Constutional Information, which later developed into the London Corresponding Society. In 1794, was a witness at the so-called Treason Trials supporting Horne Took, Thelwall, and Hardy. Also associated with Francis Burdett, William Cobbett, and Francis Place. In 1812, founded the Hampden Clubs, political clubs designed to bring together like-minded middle-class reformers and working-class radicals. Supporter of Thomas Wooler and The Black Dwarf. The Life and Correspondence of Major Cartwright was published in 1826. + Royal Navy officer who supported the aims of the American Revolution and radical and reformist causes in Great Britain. Corresponded with Thomas Jefferson. Wrote a pamphlet in 1776 advocating annual parliaments, the secret ballot, and universal manhood suffrage. Founder of the Society for Constutional Information, which later developed into the London Corresponding Society. In 1794, was a witness at the so-called Treason Trials supporting Horne Took, Thelwall, and Hardy. Also associated with Francis Burdett, William Cobbett, and Francis Place. In 1812, founded the Hampden Clubs, political clubs designed to bring together like-minded middle-class reformers with working-class radicals. Supporter of Thomas Wooler and The Black Dwarf. The Life and Correspondence of Major Cartwright was published in 1826. @@ -6274,7 +6472,6 @@ - @@ -6331,8 +6528,8 @@ Loring Hall, Kent, England - + Peer, politician, diplomat, and government official. From 1812,he helped organize the international coalition to defeat Napoleon and represented the British at the Congress of Vienna. He was leader of the House of Commons from 1812 to 1822. Mitford obliquely pokes fun at his oratorical skills in a letter of 1819 when says of a friend's circumlocutory letter that her style is as obscure as one of Lord Castlereagh's explanations. @@ -6360,9 +6557,6 @@ 10th Earl of Exeter - - The Most Honourable - Brussels, Belgium @@ -6429,6 +6623,35 @@ + + Thamas Chalmers + + Chalmers + Thomas + + + Anstruther, Fife, Scotland + + + Edinburgh, Scotland + + + + Evangelical Presybterian minister of the Church of Scotland who sought reform of poor relief + and advocated for Malthus’s ideas on population + and resources. He became famous across England for his sermons. Chalmers delivered and published + a famous memorial sermon on the death of Princess Charlotte + that called attention to poverty in Glasgow. Mitford mentions in her Journal + on July 2, 1820 reading Chalmers's new sermons + (likely his Sermons preached in the Tron Church, Glasgow) + while in Richmond. + + + + + + + Chamberlaine @@ -6531,6 +6754,22 @@ Since 1991, Charles Spencer has been a theater critic for the conservative London paper The Daily Telegraph. + + Friederike Charlotte Ulrike Katharina, Duchess of York and Albany + + Duchess of York and Albany + + + Charlottenburg, Germany + + + Oatlands Park, Surrey, England + + Mitford mentions that she was working on a black gown for the death of the Duchess in her Journal on August 9, 1820. + + + + Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill @@ -6626,7 +6865,6 @@ - Medieval English poet, philsopher, and astronomer. Author of Canterbury Tales. @@ -6661,6 +6899,7 @@ + Of Quaker parentage, Chorley worked unhappily in clerical positions and cultivated the arts as a music and literary critic, publishing @@ -6878,7 +7117,7 @@ - Comes to view Bertram House while it is for sale in 1819. May be Brigadier General Cockle. forename unknown. Dates uncertain. + Comes to view Bertram House while it is for sale in 1819. May be Brigadier General Cockle. Forename unknown. Dates uncertain. Mrs. Coffin @@ -7360,6 +7599,31 @@ + + John Crawfurd + + Crawfurd + John + + + Island of Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland + + + South Kensington, Middlesex, England + + + + British colonial administrator to Southeast Asia, where he studied Malaysian language and culture, and + served on diplomatic missions to Siam, Bali, and Java. + Married to Horatia + Perry on 25 November 1820, who traveled with him to Siam in 1821. + Mitford mentions reading about the marriage on 30 November + 1820, prior to attending a dinner gathering in December 1820 at the home of + Crawfurd’s new father-in-law, James Perry. + + + + John Marten Cripps @@ -8377,6 +8641,21 @@ An associate of both Mitford and Miss James, presumably older than both. The spouse of Mr. Dobbs. Mitford lists their address in her Journal as 27 Hatton Gardens in London. Forename unknown. Dates unknown. + + Anne Dodd + + Hayward + Dodd + Anne + + + Chinies, Buckinghamshire, England + + Married Henry Hayward on + December 27, 1819, which is mentioned by + Mitford in her journal on 6 January + 1820. + Charles Dodd @@ -8614,6 +8893,20 @@ + + Jean-Antoine Dubois + Abbé J. A. Dubois + + Dubois + Abbé + Jean-Antoine + + + + A French Catholic Missionary in India. Member of the Missions + Etrangères de Paris. Wrote Hindu manners, + customs and ceremonies. + James Graham, Duke of Montrose @@ -9137,6 +9430,21 @@ from 1588 until her death in 1603. + + John Elliott + + Elliott + John + + Son of Mr. Elliot, mentioned by Mitford as coming to look at their home at Bertram House in her Journal on 25 November 1819 and 17 March 1820. + + + Mr. Elliott + + Elliott + + Father of John Elliot, mentioned by Mitford as coming to look at their home at Bertram House in her Journal on 17 March 1820. + Sir Henry Ellis @@ -9557,6 +9865,19 @@ + + Adélaïde-Émilie Filleul, Marquise de Souza-Botelho + + Filleul + Adélaïde-Émilie + Émilie-Adélaïde + + + + Author of Mademoiselle de Tournon which Mitford mentions reading in her Journal on September 22 and 23, 1820. + + + Edward Finden @@ -9837,6 +10158,57 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + Ugo Foscolo + + Niccolo + Ugo + Foscolo + + Didimo Chierico + + Zakynthos (Zante), Ionian Islands, Republic of Venice, now + Greece + + + London, England + + + + + + + + + + +

Venetian author and playwright who spent the last years of his life in England in the 1820s, in exile from Austrian rule. + In her Journal on 15 June 1820, + Mitford mentions reading Foscolo’s Lettere de Jacopo + Ortis and writes that he is now in Eng: writing for the Quarterly. +

+

Born of a Venetian father and a Greek mother, Foscolo spent most + of his early years in Venice when it was a + Republic. His first work, a tragedy, enjoyed a modest success. He was an ardent + admirer of Napoleon, and believed that + Venice would become a true republic + upon a French invasion. When Napoleon + later ceded the city to Austria, Foscolo + published an epistolary novel denouncing the move, The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis. + However, still fostering hope for a true Italian republic, Foscolo later joined + the Italian division of the French army. In 1807, he + wrote + <foreign xml:lang="it">Dei Sepolcri</foreign> + , a long poem protesting Napoleon's ban on tomb inscriptions. He translated a number of + English works. In 1816, he fled to England, where he contributed essays on Dante, Petrarch, and other Italian poets for the Quarterly Review and the Edinburgh Review. He became something of a + celebrity, writing and teaching at a girls' school, until he was confined to + debtors' prison. Nearly fifty years after his death, his remains were + repatriated to Florence.

+ + + + + Charles James Fox @@ -10215,6 +10587,7 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire + Bill Hill, Wokingham, Berkshire, England @@ -10414,6 +10787,15 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + Mr. Goddard + + Goddard + Mr. + + Gave Lucy Hill away at + wedding. + William Godwin @@ -10435,6 +10817,25 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + + Johann + Wolfgang + von Goethe + + + Frankfurt, Germany + + + Weimar, Germany + + + + + Highly influential 18th-century novelist and dramatist, the author of Faust + and The Sorrows of Young Werther read and translated widely as iconic of the Enlightenment fashion of sensibility, or the cultivation of emotion. + + Anna Maria Goldsmid @@ -11087,6 +11488,26 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Lived in Reading, where Mitford visits her in 1819. Forename unknown. Dates unknown. Source: Journal. + + Laetitia Matilda Hawkins + + Hawkins + Laetitia + Matilda + + + London + + + Twickenham + + + Author of Heraline; or, Opposite + Proceedings. + + + + General Hawley Possibly Lieutenant General Henry Hawley (c. 1679 to 24 March @@ -11234,6 +11655,32 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + Mrs. Hayward’s little girl + + Hayward + + + Likely the hild of Mrs. Hayward and William Hayward. Mentioned by Mitford in her Journal on 2 June 1819 and 27 January 1820. + + + Henry Hayward + + Hayward + Henry + + + Watlington, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom + + + Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom + + Married Anne Dodd on + December 27, 1819, which is mentioned by + Mitford in her journal on 6 January 1820. Son + of William Hayward and + Mrs. Hayward. + John Hayward @@ -11245,13 +11692,18 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure A Watlington brewer, the brother of William Hayward. - Mrs. Hayward + Mary Ann Hayward Hayward + Heath + Mary + Ann Mrs. - Likely the spouse of William Hayward the elder. Lived in Watlington and and mother of William Hayward the younger. - + + Ewelme, Oxfordshire + + Likely the spouse of William Hayward the elder. Lived in Watlington. Mother of Henry Hayward and William Hayward the younger. William Hayward @@ -11260,18 +11712,25 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure William Mr. + + - A Watlington brewer, the spouse of Mrs. Hayward and father of William Hayward. + A Watlington brewer, the spouse of Mrs. Hayward and father of William Hayward and Henry Hayward. - + William Hayward Hayward William Mr. + + - With his father, a Watlington brewer, and later the spouse of Jane Webb. They had two children, Susan Jane (1815-1898) and William Webb (1818-1899). + With his father, + he ran a brewing establishment in Watlington. + He married Jane Webb, and they had two children, Susan Jane (1815-1898) and + William Webb (1818-1899). William Hazlitt @@ -11837,7 +12296,7 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure - + Barbara Wreaks Hofland Hofland @@ -11851,16 +12310,17 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Richmond-on-Thames - Novelist and writer of children’s books popular in England and + Frequent correspondent of Mitford's, mentioned often in her Journal of 1819-1823. + Novelist and writer of children’s books popular in England and America, Barbara Hofland was a native of Sheffield, - Yorkshire, where she published poems from July 1794 in the local - newspaper, The Sheffield Iris. Her first - marriage to Thomas Bradshawe Hoole left her widowed and in - poverty, raising a son, Frederic, on her own, and she supported herself by - publishing poems and children’s books, and by running a girl’s school in - Harrogate. second marriage was to the artist - Thomas Christopher Hofland. (Source: - ODNB) + Yorkshire, where she published poems from July 1794 in the + local newspaper, The Sheffield Iris. + Her first marriage to Thomas Bradshawe Hoole left her + widowed and in poverty, raising a son, Frederic, on her own, and she + supported herself by publishing poems and children’s books, and by running a + girl’s school in Harrogate. Her second marriage was + to the artist Thomas Christopher + Hofland. (Source: ODNB) Thomas Christopher Hofland @@ -11870,10 +12330,10 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Christopher - Nottinghamshire + Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England - Leamington Spa + Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England Landscape painter, and second husband of the author Barbara Hofland. @@ -11985,6 +12445,21 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure argue against the Jesuits and other orders for maintaining an official Catholic presence in England. + + John Holden + + Holden + John + + Mitford sent him a puppy that she got from Mr. Webb on July 1 1819. + + + Miss Holden + + Holden + + Potentially related to John Holden. Mitford sent poems to her on July 1 1819. + Margaret Holford Hodgson @@ -12302,6 +12777,34 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + Mrs. Howell + + Howell + Mrs. + + Likely a neighbor of Mitford either at Bertram House or Three Mile Cross, where she + moved by the end of March 1820. Mitford mentions iin her Journal on March 24, 1820 + that she had a quarrel with Mrs. Howell about my Carnations which she stole. + Possibly the mother or wife of William Howell, mentioned later + in the Journal on August 13, 1820. + + + + + + + Will Howell + + Howell + William + + + Mitford mentions Will Howell in her Journal + on August 13, 1820, + and he appears to be a neighbor of hers. May possibly be related to Mrs. Howell, mentioned in + her Journal on March 24, 1820. + Mary Howitt @@ -12473,6 +12976,18 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + Hannah Cooper + + Hunt + Cooper + Hannah + + + + + Potentially the Mrs. Hunt of Arlesford whom Mitford mentions in her Journal on July 1, 1819. + Robert Hunt @@ -12668,6 +13183,24 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + Elizabeth Inchbald + + Inchbald + Elizabeth + + + Stanningfield + + + London + + + Author of A Simple Story, which Mitford mentions reading in her Journal on October 16, 1820. + + + + Sir Richard Ingoldsby @@ -13217,6 +13750,13 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + Mrs. Joliffe + + Joliffe + + Mitford mentions in her Journal on February 10, 1820 that she corrected some poofs of Mrs. Joliffe’s little Tales (as yet untraced in our research). Frequently mentioned as a correspondent in the Journal. + Mr. Jolliffe @@ -13475,6 +14015,30 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Reading Central Library. + + Miss Kelly + + Kelly + Frances + Harriet + + + Chelsea, Middlesex, England + + + Middlesex, England + + + + Mitford mentions traveling to London to see Miss Kelly perform in her Journal on June 29, 1820. + It seems possible Mitford might have been going to see her perform in the comic opera, The Promissory Note, + which opened in the Theatre Royal on June 29 and continued into July 1820. + + ancestry.com + + Romantic Melodrama + + Charles Kemble @@ -14644,6 +15208,24 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + Charles MacFarlane + + MacFarlane + Charles + + + + Scottish writer and correspondent of Mitford’s. In her Journal of May and June 1820, Mitford + mentions his sending her tickets to his lectures on Italian poets in + Reading that she attended, and that he visited the Mitford’s home for tea in Three Mile Cross after a Lecture on Italian Poets on June 9 1820. + + + + + + + Niccoló di Bernardo dei Machiavelli @@ -15553,7 +16135,7 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure - + Charles Mills Mills @@ -16391,6 +16973,15 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + Mr. Nares + + Nares + Mr. + + In her Journal on June 7 1820 + Mitford mentions seeing him and Mr. MacFarlane the same day. + Nelly One of Mitford's greyhounds at Bertram House in 1819. @@ -16434,6 +17025,15 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Spouse of Jacob Newbery. Name variously spelled Newbery and Newberry. Forename unknown. Dates unknown. + + Mr. Newell + + Newell + Mr. + + Associated with William + Hayward.Married to Mrs. Newell. + Mrs. Newell @@ -16804,7 +17404,7 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Norwich, Norfolk, England - A prolific novelist from 1790 through 1834, contemporary with Mitford, and an active abolitionist in Norwich. Friendly with the Godwins, Shelleys, and Elizabeth Inchbald. Married to John Opie, the painter. + A prolific novelist from 1790 through 1834, contemporary with Mitford, and an active abolitionist in Norwich. Friendly with the Godwins, Shelleys, and Elizabeth Inchbald. Married to John Opie, the painter. @@ -17402,6 +18002,55 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + Horatia Anne Perry + + Crawfurd + + Perry + Horatia + Anne + + + London, Middlesex, England + + + Kensington, London, England + + Daughter of James Perry, + who invited Mitford to a dinner party in London in December 1820. + Mitford mentions in her Journal entry of 30 November 1820 that she read of + Horatia Perry’s marriage (a week earlier) to the diplomat John Crawfurd, then in the Bengali Service. + From 1821 to 1822, Horatia accompanied her husband on a far-eastern diplomatic + mission to Courts of Siam and Cochin + and was reportedly a subject of great interest in a first contact with islanders in the + Gulf of Siam. + + + James Perry + James Pirie + + Perry + James + + + + Aberdeen, Scotland + + + Brighton, England + + Born as James Pirie in Scotland, he presumably anglicized his name on moving to + London in 1777, where he became a prominent Whig political journalist and owner of The Morning Chronicle from + 1790 to 1817, after which retired from newspaper service due to declining health. + In the early 1790s he provided thorough on-site reporting of the French Revolution + from Paris and helped to establish The Morning Chronicle’s reputation + for thorough, accurate reporting [Source: ODNB]. Mitford mentions reading of his daughter Horatia Anne Perry’s marriage to + the east-Asian diplomat John Crawfurd in her Journal in November 1820, and soon after, + on December 9, 1820 attending a dinner party at James Perry’s house in London. + Almost exactly a year later, she mentions that she heard of poor dear Mr. Perry's death + in her Journal entry on 8 December 1821. + Hugh Peters @@ -18380,6 +19029,11 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Dates unknown. + + Hannah Rapley + + Mitford mentions in her Journal on 24 January 1820 that Hannah Rapley had begun living with Mrs. Dickinson on her recommendation. + John (Jack) Rapley @@ -19705,6 +20359,35 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + August Wilhelm von Schlegel + + von Schlegel + August + Wilhelm + + + Hanover, Electorate of Hanover + + + Bonn, Rhine Province + + + + + + Brother of Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlegel, + advisor to Madame de Staël and tutor to her children, + prolific poet and translator, as well as theorist on drama. He wrote a play, Ion, + in the style of Euripedes in 1802 + that likely influenced Thomas Noon Talfourd’s play of the same title. + Mitford may have read an English translation of his + lectures on drama and literature in 1821. + + + + + Friedrich von Schlegel @@ -20088,6 +20771,14 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + Sam Shaw + + Shaw + Samuel + + Coauthor with James Bruce of An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. into Abyssinia. Mentioned by Mitford in her Journal on June 20 1819, in which she attributes the book to Shaw. + Charles Shaw Lefevre @@ -20334,6 +21025,53 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + Henry Simonds + + + Simonds + Henry + + + + Reading, Berkshire, England + + + Potentially the H. Symonds mentioned in Mitford’s Journal on November 2 1820. + Son of Elizabeth Blackall Simonds and + William Blackall Simonds. + + + William Blackall Simonds + + Blackall Simonds + William + + + + London + + Potentially the Monsieur Simon mentioned in Mitford’s Journal on November 2 1820. + Husband of Elizabeth Blackall Simonds and father of Henry Simonds. + + + Elizabeth Blackall Simonds + + + Blackall Simonds + May + Elizabeth + + + + Baskingstroke, Hampshire, England + + + London + + Potentially the Mrs. Blackall Symonds mentioned in Mitford’s Journal on December 16 1820. + Wife of William Blackall Simonds and mother of Henry Simonds. + Sir John Sinclair @@ -20458,6 +21196,22 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure A correspondent of Mary Russell Mitford in 1847. Dates unknown. + + Farmer Smith + + Smith + William + Farmer + + + Shinfield, Berkshire, England + + + + + Most likely Farmer Smith based on Ancestry records. Likely neighbor of Mitford + at Three Mile Cross. She mentions him in her Journal as Farmer Smith on 27 June 1820 and 4 September 1820. + Horace Smith @@ -20596,7 +21350,8 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure - English poet, historian, essayist, and biographer. Early friend of Coleridge. He was Poet Laureate of England from 1813 to 1843. + English poet, historian, essayist, and biographer. Early friend of Coleridge. He was Poet Laureate of England from 1813 to 1843. Mitford mentions reading Southey’s Life of Wesley + in her Journal on April 27, 28, and May 9 1820. @@ -21237,7 +21992,7 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Donizetti wrote an opera on the subject of Tasso in 1833 , incorporating some of the poet’s work into the libretto; and Franz Liszt composed a symphonic poem, Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo in commemoration of the centenary of - Goethe’s birth in 1849 + Goethe’s birth in 1849 . @@ -21742,6 +22497,59 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Spouse of William Tuppen. Forename unknown. Dates unknown. + + Horace Twiss + + Twiss + Horace + + + + + + + + Author of The Carib Chief, a play, which was mentioned by Mitford + on December 18 1819. In 1814, he published some + clever Posthumous Parodies of famous poets. + + + Louis Eustache Ude + + Ude + Louis + Eustache + + + + Served as cook to Louis XVI, as maître d’hôtel to the Earl of + Sefton, as chef to the Duke of York, and later to Crockford’s Club, London. + Author of a highly successful cookbook, The + French Cook. + + + Anne Valpy + + Valpy + Western + Anne + + + Great Abingdon, Berkshire, England + + + Little Yarmouth, Suffolk, England + + + + + Married Mr. Edward Valpy, the brother of Dr. Valpy, in her second marriage. Mitford mentions in her Journal meeting her and Edward on a visit to the Valpys on June 23, 1820. + Anthony Blagrave Valpy @@ -21784,6 +22592,24 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Islands, their children were born there, and Catherine was buried there in the Mont à l’Abbaye cemetery. + + Mr. Edward Valpy + + Valpy + Edward + Rev. + + + St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands + + + Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England + + + + + Husband to Anne Western Valpy and younger brother of Dr. Valpy. Mitford mentions in her Journal meeting him and Anne on a visit to the Valpys on June 23, 1820. + A. J. (John) Valpy @@ -22856,6 +23682,15 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure A friend of Mitford in 1819-1823. Mitford visited him in Wokingham, along with the Webb family and Miss Jeremy. May be either James Wheeler (1766-1850), spouse of Catherine Bird Rogers Wheeler (1771-1852) or their son, James Wheeler (1792-1866), spouse of Harriet Horne, all of whom lived in Wokingham. James Wheeler, father and son, were both surgeons. + + John Wheeler + + Wheeler + John + Mr. + + Spouse of Mrs. John Wheeler. + Kate @@ -22874,7 +23709,7 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Wheeler Mrs. - A correspondent of Mary Russell Mitford in 1840. Spouse of John Wheeler. Forename unknown. Dates unknown. + A correspondent of Mary Russell Mitford in 1840. Spouse of John Wheeler. Forename unknown. Dates unknown. Whim @@ -23425,7 +24260,7 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure - First-generation poet of the Romantic era, Lake Poet and friend of fellow poet Coleridge, who co-authored Lyrical Ballads with him and to whom his major poem The Prelude was originally addressed. Poet Laureate from 1843-1850, succeeding his sometime friend and fellow Lake Poet Robert Southey in that role. + First-generation poet of the Romantic era, Lake Poet and friend of fellow poet Coleridge, who co-authored Lyrical Ballads with him and to whom his major poem The Prelude was originally addressed. Poet Laureate from 1843-1850, succeeding his sometime friend and fellow Lake Poet Robert Southey in that role. Mitford mentions in her Journal that she was reading and copying Wordsworth's poems in September 1819. @@ -24084,7 +24919,7 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Antigone - Title character in Antigone + Title character in Antigone. @@ -24736,6 +25571,10 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Title character in The Roundhead's Daughter. + + + Unnamed farmer, who lives with his wife at M. farmhouse and raises greyhounds, featured in A Great Farmhouse. + Grisildi Character in The Clerk's Tale from Canterbury Tales, also called Griselda or Patient Grizzle who became proverbial for a patient, obedient, long-suffering wife. Mitford may have been familiar with the 1782 Martins edition of the Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, in which this tale appears in volume 3. @@ -24796,6 +25635,10 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure character in Helen + + Helen + Favorite greyhound of the farmer, who lives with his wife at M. farmhouse, featured in A Great Farmhouse. + Hengo character in Bonduca @@ -26003,11 +26846,10 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure England - + 51.383 -1.150 - Village that Mitford mentions visiting with her father and the dogs in the - Journal, 10 November 1820. They continued on that day to the village of - Tadley. + Village that Mitford mentions visiting with her father and the dogs in the Journal, + 10 November 1820. They continued on that day to the village of Tadley. New Alresford, Hampshire, England @@ -26058,6 +26900,16 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure the Kingdom of the United Netherlands until 1832, when it was joined to Belgium following a siege by French forces. + + Arborfield + South East + England + + 51.401 -0.916 + + A village in England. Mitford mentions in her Journal visiting Arborfield on March 12 1820, July 11 1820, and March 29 1822 + + Ashmolean Oxford @@ -26668,6 +27520,20 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Market town in Wiltshire, east of Bath. Founded on the River Avon and served by the Great Western Railway after 1841. + + St Mary's Church + Shinfield + Berkshire + England + + 51.42490343319585 -0.9474631795216638 + + + + + + Church where Mr. Hill and Lucy married. Mitford mentions visiting this church in her Journal entries on September 10 1820. + Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Cincinnati @@ -26862,6 +27728,16 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Firth of Forth. Site of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, and Holyrood Palace. + + Egham + Runnymede + South East + England + + 51.429 -0.548 + + According to her Journal, Mitford rode through Egham on June 27, 1820. + Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, England Piccadilly @@ -27003,15 +27879,12 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Fields belonging to the Bertram House estate. One location where Mitford goes violetting in March 1819. Some of the fields are used for haying. - + Mr. Body's fields Shinfield parish Berkshire England - Fields belonging to the ichard - Body. One location where Mitford - goes violetting in March - 1819. + Fields belonging to Richard Body. One location mentioned in her Journal where Mitford goes violetting in March 1819. Mr. Davies's fields @@ -27254,7 +28127,10 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure 51.403333 -0.3375 - Built in the early sixteenth century by Cardinal Wolsey, then, after Wolsey’s fall, the residence of Henry VIII, Hampton Court Palace has been the residence of royals including George II, who was the last monarch to occupy it as an official residence. Charles I spent part of his house arrest there during his imprisonment by Parliament. + Built in the early sixteenth century by Cardinal Wolsey, then, after Wolsey’s fall, + the residence of Henry VIII, Hampton Court Palace has been the residence of royals including George II, + who was the last monarch to occupy it as an official residence. Charles I spent part of his house arrest there during his imprisonment by Parliament. + Mitford mentions visiting Hampton Court in her Journal on 3 July 1820, describing it as an delightful place with enchanting Cartoons, which included an impressive self-portrait of Titian. @@ -27456,6 +28332,17 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Central European country bordered by Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria. + + Ilsley + Berkshire + England + + 51.53243230753439 -1.3008503913281573 + + Unknown if this is either East or West Ilsey. George Mitford often visited, + as Mitford documents in her Journal on November 29, 1821, + November 27, 1821, and November 19, 1821. + India Indian subcontinent @@ -27559,11 +28446,11 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure 51.475251 -0.284890799999971 - Once a village northeast of Richmond, now a suburban district + Once a village northeast of Richmond, now a suburban district part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Site of what is now the Royal Botanic Gardens, a World Heritage Site, which includes Kew Palace, a royal residence favored by George III, and - Kew Gardens. + Kew Gardens. Mitford mentions visiting Kew in her Journal on July 4 1820. Kibe's Lane @@ -27800,12 +28687,23 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + Manchester + North West + England + + 53.479 -2.2452 + + Mitford mentions this place on November 15 1819 + + Manchester House, 29 Imperial Road, Exmouth, Devon, England Exmouth Devon England - Mitford dates her opening poem in the Journal from this location in January 1819. Now called Chester House, it was once the home of Mary Ann Clarke. + + Mitford dates her opening poem in the Journal from this location in January 1819. Now called Chester House, it was once the home of Mary Ann Clarke. @@ -27997,6 +28895,18 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure literary and publishing center; during the 1830s and 1840s Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Parker Willis all lived in New York. + + 33 Great Queen Street + London + England + + 51.515305662435175, -0.12163909072409469 + + A specific address on Great Queen Street. + Most likely owned by Mr. Newbery. + Mentioned by Mitford in her Journal on 5 December 1820, + Went with dear Drum to London (Mr. Newbery's, 33 Great Queen Street, which we had all to ourselves). + Newbury, Berkshire, England Newbury @@ -28047,6 +28957,37 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure 1821. More research needed. + + Odiham + Hart + South East + England + + 51.254 -0.939 + + + + + A market town in Hampshire. Mitford’s Journal mentions that her mother and Drum visited Odiham on Wednesday 6 September 1821, Monday 8 July 1822, Thursday 31 October 1822. + + + English Opera House + New Theatre Royal, Lyceum and English Opera House + London + England + + 51.511683730658035 -0.12006460946319568 + + + + + + Was known as the English Opera House until it burnt down in 1830. + It was then rebuilt and reopened as the Theatre Royal Lyceum & English Opera House in 1834. + After threats to demolish the building by London City Council, the theatre closed in 1939. It then reopened after World War II and renamed itself the Lyceum Ballroom. + Was then closed in 1986 but then reopened for theatrical use as the Lyceum Theatre. Mitford mentions seeing + Miss Kelly perform at English Opera House in her Journal on 29 June 1820. + Overton Hampshire @@ -28054,10 +28995,11 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure 51.2439 -1.2615 - Large parish. In 1831, the Hundred of Overton contained Ashe, - Bradley, Deane, Laverstoke, Overton, Tadley, and North Waltham. Overton Mill + Large parish. In 1831, the Hundred of Overton contained Ashe, + Bradley, Deane, Laverstoke, Overton, Tadley, and North Waltham. Overton Mill has produced banknote paper since the eighteenth century. Richard Russell lived here as vicar of - Overton and rector of Ashe and Deane. + Overton and rector of Ashe and Deane. Mitford’s Journal mentions that her father + went to Overton on 25 November 1821. @@ -28147,11 +29089,22 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Forest in north Hampshire, near Silchester. Today, Pamber Forest and Silchester Common together form a Site of Special Scientific Interest; Pamber Forest is managed as a local Nature Reserve. The woodland encompasses a hazel coppice dominated by oak standards and contains over forty plant species rare or uncommon in the UK. - + Paper mill on the Thames + Arborfield Mill Marlow Berkshire England + + 51.406 -0.926 + + + + + + + In Mitford's time, this was a paper mill that used a 48-inch paper machine. Most likely produced fine brown paper. + Mitford mentions walking to this papermill in her Journal on Tuesday 12 October, 1819 and Tuesday 29th, 1820. Paris, France @@ -28167,6 +29120,17 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Revolution and Napoleonic Wars; travel between London and Paris was much restricted during this period. + + Windsor Park + Windsor + Berkshire + England + + 51.439167 -0.624722 + + + Mitford rode through on June 27, 1820. + Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Philadelphia @@ -28199,7 +29163,7 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure many inns and public houses, including the White Horse coaching inn, which was the starting terminus for western-bound mailcoaches bound for Bath and Bristol. It was also the location of Devonshire House, 18th-century headquarters for the - Whig party, and Burlington House, later home to the Royal Academy of Arts, the + Whig party, and Burlington House, later home to the Royal Academy of Arts, the Geological Society of London, and the Royal Astronomical Society. It was also the headquarters for booksellers such as Stockdale and Hatchards in this period. @@ -28434,6 +29398,13 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure story, Lucy as a beautiful, Roman-walled town, and mentioned as the eventual residence of Lucy after her marriage. Probably Silchester. + + Saint-Amand-Montrond + Cher + Centre-Val de Loire + France + Commune in France. + Savona, Italy Savona @@ -28617,12 +29588,12 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure 51.511059 -0.11714800000004288 Large neoclassical public building in central London on the - Strand, overlooking the River Thames. In Mitford’s time, the site of Royal Academy exhibitions and + Strand, overlooking the River Thames. In Mitford’s time, the site of Royal Academy exhibitions and other cultural events. A building designed and built by Sir William Chambers beginning in 1776 in order to house public offices which had previously been scattered around London in older buildings. Likely not completed until after 1819. This building’s North Wing faced the Strand and also included East and - West Wings of the present-day quadrangle. Housed the Royal Academy of Arts, + West Wings of the present-day quadrangle. Housed the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, and the Society of Antiquaries until the 1870s. Sometimes a metonym for the Royal Academy; Mitford mentions in letter of 23 November 1821 to Elford @@ -28772,6 +29743,27 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure A parish church in St. Albans, a city in Hertfordshire, England. + + Great Queen Street + London + England + + 51.51571315852602 -0.12101546898777185 + + Mentioned in Mitford’s Journal during a visit to London on 27 June 1820, + 28 June 1820. + + + Staffordshire + England + + 52.806944 -2.116111 + + + + + A county in England. Mitford mentions in her Journal that she saw a young lady from here named Miss Torrant on 17 May 1822. + St. James’s Street, Westminster, London, England St. James @@ -28964,6 +29956,17 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure A country located in western-Central Europe. + + Tadley + Hampshire + South East + England + + 51.3506 -1.1376 + + Village that Mitford travels to with her father and the dogs while coursing on + 10 November 1820. They visit here after stopping in Aldermaston. + Temple, London, England Temple @@ -29198,9 +30201,10 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Coastal city in northwest Spain near the Portuguese border. - W. Hill - A steep, corkscrew-like hill described in A Great Farmhouse on which the farmer's greyhound, Helen proudly kills an old - hare. This might be a mappable place in England, but further research is needed. + W. Hill + A steep, corkscrew-like hill described in A Great Farmhouse + on which the farmer's greyhound, + Helen proudly kills an old hare. This might be a mappable place in England, but further research is needed. @@ -29638,7 +30642,9 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure butterfly - Insect of the order Lepidoptera with two pairs of large wings that are covered with tiny scales, usually brightly colored, and typically held erect when at rest. + + Mitford mentions seeing a most beautiful butterfly in the grounds near her home in her Journal + on 19 September 1819. Insect of the order Lepidoptera with two pairs of large wings that are covered with tiny scales, usually brightly colored, and typically held erect when at rest. @@ -29889,6 +30895,13 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + flea + A type of insect that typically bites animals and humans. + + + + glow-worm Lampyris noctiluca @@ -30051,6 +31064,14 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + leech + A type of blood-sucking worm that was often used for medical treatment + in a process known as bloodletting. + + + + long-tailed wren Spelaeornis @@ -33952,6 +34973,33 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Pardon for Mathews. + + Description of the character, manners, and customs of the + people of India : and of their institutions, religious and civils + Moeurs, institutions et cérémonies des peuples de + l'Inde + Jean Antoine Dubois + + London + + + Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown + + 1817 + + + + + Dubois' work on India was initially drafted in French, + and the first English edition was translated from that manuscript draft in + 1817. According to WorldCat, the first French publication did not appear + until 1825 and was made from a later manuscript after Dubois's return to + Europe in 1823 from living in India. This is a translation of the original + French manuscript that would have been published in 1817 in London, around + when it would be reasonable for Mitford to have picked up and read in 1820. + Mitford first mentions reading Dubois' account of India in her + Journal on 17 June 1820. + Account of the captivity of Capt. Robert Knox and other Englishmen, in the island of Ceylon @@ -34006,6 +35054,14 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure This sketch appeared in volume three of <title ref="#OV">Our Village in 1828. + + Advice to Julia: A Letter in Rhyme + Henry Luttrell + London + John Murray + 1820 + A poem that Mitford mentions reading in her Journal on October 7 1820. + The Works of Virgil, in Latin and English. The original Text correctly printed from the most authentic Editions, collated for this Purpose. The Æneid @@ -34080,6 +35136,15 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure <note resp="#lmw">Athenian tragedy attributed to <persName ref="#Aeschylus">Aeschylus</persName>; the first play of <title level="s">the Oresteia + + Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth + William Hazlitt + London, Edinburgh + Stodart and Steuart; Bell and Bradfute + 1820 + + Mitford indicated that she read Hazlitt’s Lectures in her Journal on October 22, 1820. + Aladdin There were many pantomimes under this name on the English stage, @@ -34350,7 +35415,7 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Full title: An Autumn Near the Rhine; Or Sketches of Courts, Society, Scenery, &c. in Some of the German States - Bordering on the Rhine. To which are added translations from Schiller, Goethe and other German poets.. + Bordering on the Rhine. To which are added translations from Schiller, Goethe and other German poets.. The Baron's Daughter @@ -34384,6 +35449,20 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure + + The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, in Fourteen Volumes: With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes + Francis Beaumont + John Fletcher + Henry William Weber + London, Edinburgh + J. Ballantyne and Company for F.C. and J. Rivington + 1812 + + + + + Mitford indicates that she read this in her Journal entry on September 25 1820. + On a Beautiful Woman [1827 version] Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets, and Other Poems @@ -34764,6 +35843,20 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure and Mary in February 1689, limits the powers of the monarch, establishes the rights of Parliament, and establishes some individual rights. + + A reply to the charges brought by the reviewer of Spence's + Anecdotes in the Quarterly review for October 1820 against the last editor + of Pope's works, and author of A letter to Mr. Campbell on <q>The invariable + principles of poetry</q> + + William Lisle Bowles + London + 1820 + Bowles' riposte of 1820 in the midst of a pamphlet war over + Alexander Pope’s writings, following his first entry, + The Invariable Principles + of Poetry (1819). + Bramley Maying [Lady's Magazine version] The Lady's Magazine @@ -34864,8 +35957,8 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure The Rivingtons published a comprehensive edition of Burke's works and correspondence, including his unpublished manuscripts, between 1801 - and 1823, based, in part, on an earlier 3-volume edition by Dodsley. Mitford - calls Burke a sad turncoat. Source: Journal. + and 1823, based, in part, on an earlier 3-volume edition by Dodsley. Mitford + calls Burke a sad turncoat in her Journal entry on 15 January 1819. On a Bust of Fox. @@ -34924,6 +36017,21 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Cadell and Davies 1796 + + The canons of criticism, and glossary, being a supplement to Mr. + Warburton's edition of Shakespear. + Thomas Edwards + + London + + + C. Bathurst + + 1765 + + Mitford mentions reading Edwards' Canons of Criticism in her Journal + on 12 June 1820. + The Canterbury Tales Chaucer @@ -34956,6 +36064,20 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure J. Hatchard 1818 + + The Carib Chief: A Tragedy, in Five Acts + Horace Twiss + + London + + Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown + 1819 + + + + + A play read by Mitford on 18 December 1819. She described it as a tolerable Tragedy in her Journal entry. + The Carpenter's Daughter Belford Regis @@ -36890,6 +38012,21 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure 1835 This story was also published in the English Annual for 1837 with the title A Sentimental Adventure. + + Festival of Flora + The Festival of Flora: A Poem with Botanical Notes + Arthur Crichton + + London + + N. Hailes + 1818 + + + + + Mitford mentions that she read this in her Journal entry on August 24 1820. Second Edition. + Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale @@ -37069,6 +38206,12 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure 1827 untitled song. Title taken from first line. + + George III, his court, and family + John Galt + Printed for Henry Colburn + 1820 + Geraniaceae: The Natural Order of Gerania, Illustrated by Coloured Figures and Descriptions; Comprising the Numerous and Beautiful Mule-varieties Cultivated in the Gardens of Great Britain, with Directions for Their Treatment @@ -37407,6 +38550,19 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Henry VIII + + Heraline; or, Opposite Proceedings + + Laetitia Matilda Hawkins + + London + + Francis, Charles and John Rivington + + 1821 + 4 vols. Mitford mentions reading this book in her Journal + entry of 9 August 9 1821. + The Hermit in London @@ -37851,7 +39007,8 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. into Abyssinia - + James Bruce + Samuel Shaw London @@ -37859,10 +39016,10 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure S. Shaw - Full title: An Interesting Narrative of the + <note resp="#lmw #ebb">Full title: <title level="m">An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. into Abyssinia: To discover the source of the Nile. Abridged from the original work. Title page attributes editorship to a Samuel Shaw, Esq. Mitford rated it very - learned & curious. + learned & curious in her Journal on June 20 1819. Introduction @@ -38258,6 +39415,34 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure 1815 + + The Last Letters of Jacopo + Ortis + Ugo Foscolo + 1802 + + Bologna, Italy + + + London, England + + Romualdo Zotti + Epistolary novel read by Mitford + who describes it in her Journal on 15 June + 1820 as a very sweet Italian novel in journal. She speaks of + it again in her letter to William Elford on 1820 June 21, saying the only + modern Italian novel. What a strange anomaly in literature, that this + imaginative people, from whom almost all out old stories were borrowed, + should have no original novels now, for these letters of Ortis are little + other than an imagination of ‘Werther.' As MRM observes, the book is in the spirit of + + Goethe's Werther + + but with political overtones that link the hero, Ortis, to the Venetian struggle for indepependence and liberty. + The protagonist is in love with a woman, Teresa, who is betrothed to another, while + also enduring dashed political hopes with fall of Venice into the hands of Austria. He communicates his feelings to a friend in letters + while on his travels. + On Leaving a Favourite Picture [1827 version] Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets, and Other Poems @@ -38348,6 +39533,20 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure London + + A course of lectures on dramatic art and literature + August Wilhelm Schlegel + John Black + + London + + + Baldwin + + 1815 + Translation of Schlegel's Vorlesungen über dramatische Kunst und Litteratur, first published in 1809 + . + Lectures on Painting @@ -38381,6 +39580,18 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure A collection of legends believed to be composed during the 1380s. + + Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters + Joanna Baillie + London + Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown + 1821 + + + + + Mitford mentions that she read this in her Journal entry on June 10 1821. + Leighton Priory Author and date unidentified. @@ -38444,7 +39655,7 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, published in July 1820, was the last volume of Keats’ poems to appear in print during his lifetime. Keats died from - tuberculosis a little over half a year later, in February 1821. + tuberculosis a little over half a year later, in February 1821. Mitford mentions Keats’s poems, almost certainly this edition, in her Journal on September 30, 1820. The Life of Burke @@ -38764,6 +39975,23 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure This sketch appeared in volume three of <title ref="#OV">Our Village in 1828. It was also published in the Literary Souvenir for 1828. + + Mademoiselle de Tournon + Adélaïde-Émilie Filleul, Marquise de + Souza-Botelho + + Paris + + + Chez Didot Père et Fils + + 1820 + + + + + Mitford mentions reading this book in her Journal on 22 and 23 September 1820. + Mahomet @@ -39010,6 +40238,21 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure 1810 1810 poem. This title also published in Poems: Second Edition with Considerable Additions. Barbara Hofland employs the first four lines of this poem as a chapter epigraph in volume 3 of her Tales of the Priory (33). + + Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, Queen of Henry VIII. By + Miss Benger. + + Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger + + London + + Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown + + 1821 + 2 vols. Mitford mentions reading this book in her Journal + entries of March 25, 26, and 27, + 1821. + Memoirs of the Life of the Great Condé @@ -39355,6 +40598,20 @@ Life of William Harness (1870s): mentions Fitzharris as MRM protege and failure notices of other parts of the interior of Africa. Mitford rated it dull. + + The Missionary: An Indian Tale + Sydney Owenson + London + J.J. Stockdale + 1811 + + + + + + A tragic romance novel mentioned by Mitford in her Journal on Monday 23rd. Tells + the tale of star-crossed lovers, a Portuguese missionary to India and an Indian prophetess. + To the Hon. Miss Murray, with Miss Rowden's "Poetical Introduction to Botany." Poems @@ -40002,6 +41259,25 @@ Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1806. --> Old Mortality + + Old Manor House + + Charlotte Smith + + + London + + + J. Bell + + 1793 + + + + + Four Volumes. Written in the middle of the French Revolution. Read by Mitford on October 18, 1820 + + The Old Testament Hebrew Bible @@ -41278,6 +42554,17 @@ Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1806. --> Dramatic sketch. Reprinted in volume two of The Dramatic Works of Mary Russell Mitford (1854). + + The Artist: A Dramatic Sketch + The Lady's Magazine, new series 2 + + London + + + S. Robinson + + First published in The Lady's Magazine, new series 2, volume 3 (1822) under this title. Reprinted in Mitford's 1827 collection as The Painter's Daughter: A Dramatic Sketch. Also reprinted in volume two of The Dramatic Works of Mary Russell Mitford (1854). + John Milton Paradise Lost @@ -41489,6 +42776,23 @@ Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1806. --> or, the Chronicles of Christabelle de Mowbray; an Ancient Legend. + + The Pirate + Walter Scott + 1822 + + Scotland + + + Archibald Constable and Co.; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. + + + + + Published late 1821 with a date of 1822. Read by Mitford as mentioned in her Journal onDecember 30, 1821. Part of the Waverly series of novels, first published + anonymously as by the author of Waverley + until Scott disclosed his authorship in 1827. + Pizarro @@ -41800,6 +43104,20 @@ Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1806. --> T. Egerton 1813 + + Tales of the Priory + Barbara Hofland + + London + + + Arthur Hall, Virtue, & Co. + + 1820 + + Mitford mentions reading these tales in her Journal entries + of July 1820, finding them too dismal but very good. + Prisoner of Chillon @@ -41942,6 +43260,17 @@ Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1806. --> Raymond Author and date unidentified. + + The Recluse of the Appenines; or the Automaton Chief. A + Romance. + Sophia Louisa Breckenridge + London + + Sherwood, Neely, and Jones + + 1820 + Read by Mitford, as recorded in her Journal in September 1820. + Recollections and Reflections, Personal and Political, as Connected with Public Affairs, During the Reign of George III @@ -42440,6 +43769,18 @@ Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1806. --> 3 volumes. Published anonymously as by a Lady. Mitford rated it very good. + + Sermons preached in the Tron Church, Glasgow + Thomas Chalmers + + Glasgow + + John Smith; William Whyte + 1819 + Likely the new sermons that Mitford mentions + reading in her Journal on 2 July 1820, on the same day that she began reading + Barbara Hofland’s Tales of the Priory. + Manuscript sermons @@ -42508,6 +43849,26 @@ Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1806. --> 1811 1811 poem. + + A Simple Story + Elizabeth Inchbald + + London + + F.C. and J. Rivington + 1820 + Mitford mentions reading this novel in her Journal on October 16, 1820. + + + Sintram and His Companions: A Romance + Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué + Julius Charles Hare + + + + + Mitford mentions that she read this in a Journal entry on September 6 1820. + Sir Francis Darrell; or, the Vortex. A Novel @@ -42548,6 +43909,22 @@ Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1806. --> C.S. van Winkle 1819 + + Sketches descriptive of Italy, in the years 1816 and 1817; with a brief + account of travels in various parts of France and Switzerland, in the same + years. + Charlotte A. Eaton + + London + + + Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown + + 1820 + + Mitford may have read this in the summer of 1820. + Sketches of America: a Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through the Eastern and Western States of America; Contained in Eight @@ -42687,6 +44064,20 @@ Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1806. --></note> <author ref="#MRM">Mary Russell Mitford</author> <date when="1835">1835</date> </bibl> + <bibl xml:id="StMagdaleneAM"> + <title>The Fast of St. Magdalen: A Romance + Anna Maria Porter + + London + + + Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown + + + + + A three volume novel by Anna Maria Porter. + The Stolen Letter Findens' Tableaux: The Iris of Prose, Poetry, and Art for MDCCXLI @@ -42786,6 +44177,19 @@ Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1806. --></note> <publisher>Chapman and Hall</publisher> <date when="1859">1859</date> </bibl> + <bibl xml:id="Tales_Heart"> + <title>Tales of the heart + Amelia Opie + London + Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown + 1820 + + + + + + Mitford mentions that she read this in a Journal entry on 31 October 1820. + Tales of the Hall @@ -42821,7 +44225,9 @@ Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1806. --> 1819 4 volumes. The Bride of Lammermoor made up volumes one and two and Legend of Montrose, volumes - three and four. + three and four. Mitford mentions Old Mortality, Black Dwarf, + and Heart of Midlothian, both in Volume 1 of the collected + series, in her Journal in 1820 and 1821. Tales of Wonder, of Humour, and of Sentiment; Original and @@ -43265,6 +44671,19 @@ Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1806. --></note> <publisher>Joseph Mawman</publisher> <date when="1802">1802</date> </bibl> + <bibl xml:id="Travels_Belzoni"> + <title>Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nucia + Giovanni Battista Belzoni + + London + + + John Murray + + 1821 + + Mitford mentions reading this in her Journal on September 29, 1821. + Travels in the North of Germany @@ -43299,6 +44718,16 @@ Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1806. --> Published by the Association for Promoting the Discovery for the Interior Parts of Africa. + + Travels of Theodore Ducas + Charles Mills + + London + + Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown + + Full title: The Travels of Theodore Ducas of Candia in Various Countries in Europe at the Revival of Letters and Art, 2 vols. Vol. 1: Italy. Volume two was never published. + Twelfth Night William Shakespeare @@ -43404,6 +44833,22 @@ Publisher: London : Printed for Edward Orme, 1806. --> T. Cadell 1821 + + The Vampyre: A Tale + John William Polidori + + London + + Sherwood, Neely, and Jones + 1819 + + + + + An early published modern vampire story that Mitford described as very stupid in her Journal on + 4 November 1820. Mitford does not mention the author in her Journal. Originally this book was credited to Lord Byron, but was + later confirmed to be written by Polidori. + Venice Preserv’d @@ -44096,6 +45541,22 @@ Vicissitudes of life : exemplified in the interesting memoirs of a young lady, i Walton had written biographical sketches of Donne, Wotton, Hooker and Herbert which were originally published separately as part of volumes containing other materials on their subjects. The first volume of collected Lives appeared in 1670. The second appeared in 1678 and added a life of Herbert. This volume was often later reprinted under the title Walton’s Lives. Mitford may have read the new edition published in 1805 at Oxford by Clarendon Press. Another edition appeared in 1807 with a life of Walton himself by Thomas Zouch. + + The Wanderer, a Poem + Charles MacFarlane + + London + + 1820 + + Mitford mentions in her Journal that MacFarlane sent her his poem in her on August 25 1820. The Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry notes that MacFarlane claims to have published this poem in 1820, but + no published copy has been found. + + + + + + Warbeck of Wolfstein Margaret Holford @@ -44181,6 +45642,9 @@ Vicissitudes of life : exemplified in the interesting memoirs of a young lady, i Archibald Constable Edinburgh 1814 + + Mitford mentions reading Waverley in her Journal + in 1819 and 1820. The Way to Keep Him. A Comedy in Five Acts