ࡱ> ?A>%` %bjbjNN .,,,%.......BJJJJ,vB)0)))))))$*h-').')..<)N..)).. 9J!R)R)0)-s@--.D| /')') )BBB$f BBBf BBB...... The Book of Irish Writers, Chapter 21- Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, 1776-1859 Banned by the Pope, barred by the Austrian emperor from his territories and the first woman to receive a civil list pension for her contribution to literature: Sydney Owenson knew how to make friends and enemies. Owenson was educated at home until around the age of 13, when her mother died. After three years schooling in Dublin, she accompanied her father, the actor Robert Owenson, on his theatrical tours. Its tempting to see this as the most important part of her education. Certainly much of her life was a performance. Her education continued when she worked as a governess in households which encouraged her developing interests in Irish history and literature, and in singing and playing the harp. In 1801 in her mid twenties - she published her first book of poems, which are full of sighing, trembling and balmy kisses. The poems also feature music very strongly and, in 1807, her second collection The Lay of an Irish Harp would demonstrate her patriotism: Why sleeps the harp of Erins pride? Why withring droops its Shamrock wreathe? Why has that song of sweetness died Which Erins harp alone can breathe? By this stage she was already known as a performer on the harp and her Twelve Original Hibernian Melodies in 1805 pre-dated Thomas Moores more famous Irish Melodies. However, it is as a novelist that Owenson is best known. Her third novel, The Wild Irish Girl, appeared in 1806 and immediately established her as a literary celebrity. She was not yet 30. The novel is told from the point of view of Horatio Mortimer, a young Englishman, who has been banished by his father to the familys Irish estates as punishment for bad behaviour, or as the novel puts it: idly presiding as the high priest of libertinism at the nocturnal orgies of vitiated dissipation The style is very much part of the fun of the novel. Horatio arrives in Ireland with the conventional prejudice that it is barbarous. But Irish hospitality and the beauties of the Irish landscape begin to change his opinions. Eventually he will learn that everything in Ireland is older, better, and more beautiful than anywhere else, especially England. Central to this education is the wild Irish girl herself: Glorvina, the beautiful Princess of Inishmore: a form so almost impalpably delicate, that as it floated on the gaze, it seemed like the incarnation of some pure ethereal spirit, which a sigh too roughly breathed would dissolve into its kindred air . In other words: Horatio Mortimer is smitten. True love eventually triumphs - but first there are, of course, obstacles to be overcome, most notably Irish history. The Mortimers Irish estates originally belonged to Glorvinas family who were dispossessed of them in Cromwellian times. A Mortimer ancestor had also murdered one of Glorvinas ancestors. As Glorvina, the wild Irish girl, educates Horatio out of his anti-Irish prejudice and into a fuller understanding of Irish history and culture, so Owenson hopes to educate her readers. The marriage of Glorvina and Mortimer is political as well as personal - indicating Owensons hopes for Irish and English reconciliation the novel was also influential on nineteenth century fiction as it is one of the first national tales. As in Owensons earlier novels, Glorvina is an idealized self-portrait. Glorvina dances, sings and plays the harp, just like Owenson herself who had great success in embodying her literary creation. She would sign her letters Glorvina and donned supposedly ancient Celtic costume at soirees whilst, of course, playing the harp causing a fad for Celtic fashions among upper class ladies. Owensons career as a writer was long and, sometimes, controversial. In common with many other writers of the period she was attracted by Eastern themes and settings. In The Missionary from 1811, the story is set in India - but the conflict between East and West, as in many other cases, was a convenient way to discuss Ireland at one remove. In her thirties, Owenson married Sir Charles Morgan, and published afterwards as Lady Morgan. The major work of these years was Woman and Her Master -which was a serious historical consideration of the role and status of women. Unusually for a woman at this time, Owenson was subject to overt and sometimes malicious criticism, usually from right-wing critics. She was ready to respond in the same vein. 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