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See also:LADY See also:SYDNEY See also:MORGAN (c. 1783-1859)
, See also:British authoress, daughter of See also:Robert Owenson, an Irish actor, was See also:born in 1783 in See also:Dublin
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She was one of the most vivid and hotly discussed See also:literary figures of her See also:generation
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She began her career with a precocious See also:volume of poems
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She collected Irish tunes, for which she composed the words, thus setting a See also:fashion adopted with See also:signal success by Tom See also:Moore
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Her St Clair (1804), a novel of See also:ill-judged See also:marriage, ill-starred love, and impassioned nature-See also:worship, in which the See also:influence of See also:Goethe and See also: She took her revenge indirectly in the novel of See also:Florence Macarthy (1818), in which a Quarterly reviewer, See also:Con Crawley, is insulted with supreme feminine ingenuity . See also:Italy, a See also:companion See also:work to her France, was published in 1821; See also:Lord See also:Byron bears testimony to the justness of its pictures of See also:life . The results of See also:Italian See also:historical studies were given in her Life and Times of Salvator See also:Rosa (1823) . Then she turned again to Irish See also:manners and politics with a See also:matter-of-fact book on See also:Absenteeism (1825), and a romantic novel, The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys (1827) . From Lord See also:Melbourne Lady Morgan obtained a See also:pension of £300 . During the later years of her See also:long life she published The Book of the Boudoir (1829), Dramatic Scenes from Real Life (1833), The Princess (1835), Woman and her See also:Master (184o), The Book without a Name (1841), Passages from my Autobiography (1859) . She died on the 14th of See also:April 1859 . Her autobiography and many interesting letters were edited with a memoir by W . Hepworth See also:Dixon in 1862 . |
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