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Mary Russell Mitford

Female : Novelist, Playwright, Essayist & Poet. In 1797 she won a lottery prize of £20,000 that made her family financially secure for many years. From 1820 she lived the rest of her life in the Berkshire village of Three Mile Cross
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Alresford, Hampshire

Date of Birth : 1787 Date of Death : 1855 Age : 68
1810-1820
Miscellaneous Poems
(1810 Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme)
Christina : The Maid of the South Seas - A Poem
(1811 Valpy & Rivington)
Watlington Hill
(1812 A J Valpy Pb)
Narrative Poems on the Female Character
(1813 Rivington)
Blanche of Castile
(1813)
Stories of American Life by American Authors
(1820)

1821-1830
Julian : A Tragedy in Five Acts
(1823 W B Gilley US)
Our Village
(1824) - [SEE BELOW]
The Foscari
(1826 Whittaker)
Foscari and Julian : Tragedies
(1827 Whittaker, London)
Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets & Other Poems
(1827 Whittaker, London)
Rienzi : A Tragedy
(1828)

1831-1840
American Stories : First Series
(1831 Whittaker, Treacher) - 3 vols
Mary, Queen of Scots
(1831)
Inez de Castro
(1831)
Stories of American Life for Little Boys & Girls
(1832)
(Ed) Lights and Shadows of American Life (1832 Colburn & Bentley) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £225
Charles I : An Historical Tragedy
(1834 John Duncombe)
Sadak and Kalasrade
(1835 Lyceum Opera House)
Tales for Young People
(1835)
Belford Regis, or Sketches of a Country Town
(1835 Bentley) - 3 vols
Sadak and Kalasrade, or The Waters of Oblivion
(1836)
Country Stories
(1837 Saunders & Otley) (1896 Macmillan NY)

1841 Onwards
The Works : Prose and Verse
(1841) (1850 Phila)
Disobedient Joseph
(c1845 Darton)
Recollections of a Literary Life, or Books, Places & People
(1852 Bentley - 3 vols)
Offered in 1999 for £325
(1852 Harper NY)
Atherton & Other Tales
(1854 Hurst & Blackett) - 3 vols (1854 Ticknor & Fields) - 3 vols
The Dramatic Works
(1854 Hurst & Blackett) - 2 vols
Memoirs and Letters of Charles Boner, with Letters of Mary Russell Mitford to Him
(1871 Richard Bentley) - 2 vols
Letters : Second Series
(1872 Bentley) - 2 vols. Edited by Henry Chorley
Correspondence with Charles Boner and John Ruskin
(1914 Fisher Unwin) - Edited by Elizabeth Lee
Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford : The Unpublished Letters
(1954 John Murray) (1954 Yale UP)

Editions of "Our Village"
[This was her successful work and it made her an international author of note]
Our Village : Sketches of Rural Character & Scenery - First Series
(1824 Whittaker, London)
2nd Series
(1826 Whittaker)
3rd Series
(1828 Whittaker)
4th Series
(1830 Whittaker 10/6)
5th Series
(1832 Whittaker)
(1893 Macmillan) - Hugh Thomson
(1910 Macmillan) - Hugh Thomson & Alfred Rawlings
(1947 Harrap) - Joan Hassall
(1986 Sidgwick & Jackson) - Shirley Felts

READING
The Life of Mary Russell Mitford, related in a Selection from her Letters
(1870 Bentley) - 3 vols
(Ed) A G K L'Estrange : The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as recorded in Letters
from Her Literary Correspondents
(1882 Hurst & Blackett) - 2 vols (1882 Harper)
W J Roberts : Mary Russell Mitford
(1913)
M C Hill : Mary Russell Mitford and Her Surroundings
(1920)
M Austin : Mary Russell Mitford - Her Circle and Her Books
(1930)
J E AGate : Mary Russell Mitford
(1940)
V Watson : Mary Russell Mitford
(1949)
C M D Jones : Miss Mitford and Mr Harness
(1955)

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