AMELIA See also:OPIE (1769-1853)
, See also:English author, daughter of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Alderson, a physician in See also:Norwich, and was See also:born there on the 12th of See also:November 1769
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See also:Miss Alderson had inherited See also:radical principles and was an ardent admirer of See also:Horne See also:Tooke
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She was intimate with the Kembles and with Mrs See also:Siddons, with See also:Godwin and See also:Mary Wolistonecraft
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In 1798 she married See also:John See also:Opie, the painter
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The See also:rest of her life was spent in travelling and in the exercise of charity
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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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