See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

MARY See also:

• RUSSELL (FAMILY)
• RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
• RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
• RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
• RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
• RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
• RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
• RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
• RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
• RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )

RUSSELL See also:

• MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1787-1855)
• MITFORD, WILLIAM (1744-1827)

MITFORD (1787-1855)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English novelist and dramatist, only daughter of Dr See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George See also:

• MITFORD, MARY RUSSELL (1787-1855)
• MITFORD, WILLIAM (1744-1827)

Mitford, or Midford, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Alresford, See also:

• HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

Hampshire, on the 16th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1787 . She retains an See also:

• HONOURABLE (Fr. honorable, from Lat. honorabilis, worthy of honour)

honourable See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in English literature as the authoress of Our See also:

• VILLAGE

Village, a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of sketches of village scenes and characters unsurpassed in their See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind, and as fresh as if they had been written yesterday . Her See also:

• FATHER

father was a curious See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character . He first spent his wife's See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune in a few years; then he spent the greater See also:

• PART

part of f20,000, which in 1797 his daughter, then at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of ten, See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew as a See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize in a lottery; then he lived on a small remnant of his fortune and the proceeds of his daughter's See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry . The father kept fresh in his daughter the keen delight in incongruities, the lively sympathy with self-willed vigorous individuality, and the womanly tolerance of its excess, which inspire so many of her sketches of character . See also:

• MISS

Miss Mitford lived in See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close attendance on him, refused all See also:

• HOLIDAY

holiday invitations because he could not live without her, and worked incessantly for him except when she See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke off her See also:

• WORK

work to read him the sporting See also:

• NEWSPAPERS

newspapers . Her See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing has all the See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm of perfectly unaffected spontaneous See also:

• HUMOUR (Latin humor)

humour, combined with See also:

• QUICK

quick wit and exquisite literary skill . Miss Mitford met See also:

• ELIZABETH
• ELIZABETH (1533-1603)
• ELIZABETH (1596-1662)
• ELIZABETH (1635–1650)
• ELIZABETH [ AMELIE EUGENIE ] (1837—1898)
• ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
• ELIZABETH [PAULINE ELIZABETH OTTILIE LOUISE] (1843– )
• ELIZABETH [PETROVNA] (1709-1762), EMPRESS
• ELIZABETH, SAINT (1207-1231)

Elizabeth See also:

• BARRETT, LAWRENCE (1838-1891)
• BARRETT, LUCAS (1837-1862)

Barrett (Mrs See also:

• BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT (z8o6-r861)
• BROWNING, OSCAR (1837- )
• BROWNING, ROBERT (1812-1889)

Browning) in 1836, and the acquaintance ripened into a warm friendship . The See also:

• STRAIN (through O. Fr. straindre, estraindre, mod. i treindre, from Lat. stringere, to draw tight, related to stress, stretch, string, &c.)

strain of poverty began to tell on her work, for although her books sold at high prices, her income did not keep See also:

• PACE (through O. Fr. pas, from Lat. passus, step, properly the stretch of the leg in walking, from pandere, to stretch)
• PACE, RICHARD (c. 1482-1536)

pace with her father's extravagances . In 1837, however, she received a See also:

• CIVIL

civil See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list See also:

• PENSION (Lat. pensio, a payment, from pendere, to weigh, to pay)

pension, and five years later her father died . A subscription was raised to pay his debts, and the surplus increased the daughter's income . Miss Mitford eventually removed to a cottage at Swallowfield, near See also:

• READING

Reading, where she died on the loth of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1855 .

Miss Mitford's youthful ambition had been to be " the greatest English poetess," and her first publications were poems in the manner of See also:

• COLERIDGE, HARTLEY (1796-1849)
• COLERIDGE, JOHN DUKE COLERIDGE, 1ST BARON
• COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR (1772-1834)
• COLERIDGE, SARA (1802–1852)
• COLERIDGE, SIR JOHN TAYLOR (1790-1876)

Coleridge and See also:

• SCOTT, ALEXANDER (fl. 1550)
• SCOTT, DAVID (18o6-1849)
• SCOTT, MICHAEL (1789-1835)
• SCOTT, ROBERT (1811-1887)
• SCOTT, SIR GEORGE GILBERT (1811-1878)
• SCOTT, SIR WALTER, BART
• SCOTT, WILLIAM BELL (1811-1890)
• SCOTT, WINFIELD (1786-1866)

Scott (See also:

• MISCELLANEOUS

Miscellaneous Verses, 181o, reviewed by Scott in the Quarterly; Christine, a metrical See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale, 1811; See also:

• BLANCHE, JACQUES EMILE (1861– )

Blanche, 1813) . Her See also:

• PLAY

play See also:

• JULIAN (FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS) (331-363)

Julian was produced at Covent See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden, with See also:

• MACREADY, WILLIAM CHARLES (1793—1873)

Macready in the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title-role, in 1823; The See also:

• FOSCARI, FRANCESCO (1373-1457)

Foscari was performed at Covent Garden, with See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• KEMBLE
• KEMBLE, JOHN MITCHELL (1807-1857)

Kemble as the See also:

• HERO (Gr. open)
• HERO, THE YOUNGER

hero, in 1826; See also:

• RIENZI, COLA DI (c. 1313–1354)

Rienzi, 1828, the best of her plays, had a run of See also:

• THIRTY

thirty-four nights, and Miss Mitford's friend, See also:

• TALFOURD, SIR THOMAS NOON (1795-1854)

Talfourd, imagined that its See also:

• VOGUE, EUGENE MELCHIOR, COMTE DE (1848- )

vogue militated against the success of his own play See also:

• ION

Ion . Charles the First was refused a See also:

• LICENCE (through the French from Lat. licentia, licere, to be lawful)

licence by the See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord See also:

• CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
• CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
• CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
• CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)

Chamberlain, but was played at the See also:

• SURREY
• SURREY, EARLDOM OF
• SURREY, HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF (1518?-1547)

Surrey See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

Theatre in 1834 . But the See also:

• PROSE

prose, to which she was driven by domestic necessities, has rarer qualities than her See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse . The first series of Our Village sketches appeared in 1824, a second in 1826, a third in 1828, a See also:

• FOURTH

fourth in 183o, a fifth in 1832 . Our Village was several times reprinted; Belford Regis, a novel in which the neighbourhood and society of Reading were idealized, was published in 1835 . Her Recollections of a Literary See also:

• LIFE

Life (1852) is a series of causeries about her favourite books . Her talk was said by her See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends, Mrs Browning and Hengist See also:

• HORNE, GEORGE (1730-1792)
• HORNE, RICHARD HENRY, or HENGIST (1803–1884)
• HORNE, THOMAS HARTWELL (178o-1862)

Horne, to have been even more amusing than her books, and five volumes of her Life and Letters, published in 187o and 1872, show her to have been a delightful See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter-writer .