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Amelia Opie
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Amelia Opie : Adeline Mowbray or Mother and Daughter
Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'We have not yet been sufficiently settled to read any thing but Novels. Adeline Mowbray made us quite sick before we got to the end of it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family Print: Book
Amelia Opie : Adelaide
'And Holcroft, reading Adelaide, which must have been one of her earliest plays, wrote on the back of the manuscript: at seventeen, when scenes like this occurred, you promis?d much. Remember! Keep your word. T. H.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Holcroft Manuscript: Play script
Amelia Opie : [her own works]
?Mrs Opie?s was essentially a happy temperament and with such adaptability as she possessed, quiet home evenings were not without their charms; even when her husband sat there deep in his books or prints. He liked novels also: had the ? virtue of appreciating her own: when she read her latest work to him in the dramatic manner that made Martineaus weep over her pathos in manuscript and wonder at the lesser charm of the printed page, if her audience was so much smaller than at Norwich literary gatherings, it was an indulgent one.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Manuscript: Unknown
Amelia Opie : her own works as they are published
?As usual all the good I saw in my work, before it was printed, is now vanished from my sight and I remember only its faults. All the authors of both sexes, and artists too, that are not too ignorant or full of conceit to be capable of alarm tell me they have had the same feeling when about to receive judgement from the public. Besides, whatever I read appears to me so superior to my own productions, that I am in a state of most unenviable humility.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
Amelia Opie : unknown
'I have been reading for the first time 2 of yr Tales & am delighted with them. They not only amuse & interest & affect extremely but they amend--and it must be a delightful reflection for a Person who has written for others to feel that they have done good instead of harm.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Amelia Opie : Temper, or Domestic Scenes: A Tale
'I [Harriet Martineau] remember my mother and sister coming home with swollen eyes and tender spirits after spending an evening with Miss Opie, to hear "Temper," which she read in a most overpowering way. When they saw it in print, they could scarcely believe it was the same story.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Manuscript: Unknown
Amelia Opie : Temper, or Domestic Scenes: A Tale
'I [Harriet Martineau] remember my mother and sister coming home with swollen eyes and tender spirits after spending an evening with Miss Opie, to hear "Temper," which she read in a most overpowering way. When they saw it in print, they could scarcely believe it was the same story.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Martineau and daughter Print: Book
Amelia Opie : Song of A Hindustani Girl [The Poor Hindoo]
'Tis thy will and I must leave thee, oh! Thou best beloved farewell/...'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux
Amelia Opie : The Mourner: Another on the same subject
'The Mourner' 'The following
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux
Amelia Opie : Temper, or Domestic Scenes
'In my sixth year [...] Nothing could contribute so much to my amusement as a novel. A novel at six years may appear ridiculous, but it was a real desire that I felt, -- not to instruct myself, I felt no such wish, but to divert myself and to afford more scope to my nightly meditations ... and it is worthy to remark that in a novel I carefully past over all passages which described CHILDREN -- 'The Fops love and pursuit of the heroines mother in "Temper" delighted me, but the description of the infancy of Emma was past over'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Amelia Alderson Opie : Father and Daughter, The: a Tale in Prose, with an Epistle from the Maid of Corinth to her Lover, and Other Poetical Pieces
'I went to Norwich & past two Days with Mrs Opie who has written some pleasant books, particularly the [italics] Father & Daughter [end italics].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
Amelia Opie : verses opening 'Go, youth beloved...'
'In [1802] [...] [Amelia Opie] published a volume of poems. It included those charming and well-known lines, which, as giving the key to her nature -- tenderness -- we shall quote here [reproduces two stanzas opening "Go, youth beloved, in distant glades"] [...] It was of this very sweet song that Sir James Mackintosh playfully wrote to Mr. Sharpe, saying: "Tell the fair Opie that if she would address such pretty verses to me as she did to Ashburner, I think she might almost bring me back from Bombay, though she could not prevent his going thither."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Mackintosh Print: Book
Amelia Opie : Father and Daughter
On literary life of Amelia Opie, 1804-25: 'It must have been something [...] to breakfast with Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott: the gifted man condescending to tell her "that he had cried more over her 'Father and Daughter' than he cried over such things."'
