WorkSydney Owenson (Lady Morgan)

Dramatic Scenes from Real Life* and The Wild Irish Girl

Dramatic Scenes from Real Life* and *The Wild Irish Girl*, Inferred

Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) (1783–1859)

InferredFuller refers to "Lady Morgan" as a byword for sentimental style, saying she "could be sentimental quite a la Morgan." Hudspeth identified two candidate works by Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan): *Dramatic Scenes from Real Life* and *The Wild Irish Girl*, suggesting Fuller had probably read one of them, though no specific title is named.

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Documented 1833

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1833—

Letter to James F. Clarke

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“I could be sentimental quite a la Morgan about it—”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller refers to "Lady Morgan" as a byword for sentimental style, saying she "could be sentimental quite a la Morgan." Hudspeth identified two candidate works by Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan): Dramatic Scenes from Real Life and The Wild Irish Girl, suggesting Fuller had probably read one of them, though no specific title is named.