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AMELIA OPIE (1769-1853)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 129 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OPIE (1769-1853)  , See also:English author, daughter of See also:James Alderson, a physician in See also:Norwich, and was See also:born there on the 12th of See also:November 1769 . See also:Miss Alderson had inherited See also:radical principles and was an ardent admirer of See also:Horne See also:Tooke . She was intimate with the Kembles and with Mrs See also:Siddons, with See also:Godwin and See also:Mary Wolistonecraft . In 1798 she married See also:John See also:Opie, the painter . The nine years of her married See also:life were very happy, although her See also:husband did not See also:share her love of society . He encouraged her to write, and in 18or she produced a novel entitled See also:Father and Daughter, which showed genuine See also:fancy and pathos . She published a See also:volume of graceful See also:verse in 1802; Adeline See also:Mowbray followed in 1804, See also:Simple Tales in 18o6, See also:Temper in 1812, Tales of Real Life in 1813, See also:Valentine's See also:Eve in 1816, Tales of the See also:Heart in 1818, and Madeline in 1822 . At length, in 1825, through the See also:influence of See also:Joseph John See also:Gurney, she joined the Society of See also:Friends, and beyond a volume entitled Detraction Displayed, and contributions to See also:periodicals, she wrote nothing more . The See also:rest of her life was spent in travelling and in the exercise of charity . Mrs Opie retained her vivacity to the last, dying at Norwich on the 2nd of See also:December 1853 . A Life, by Miss C . L .

Brightwell, was published in 1854 .

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