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Mary Russell Mitford (16 December 1787 - 10 January 1855), was an English novelist and dramatist. She was born at Alresford, Hampshire. Her place in English literature is as the author of Our Village. This series of sketches of village scenes and vividly drawn characters was based upon life in Three Mile Cross, a hamlet in the parish of Shinfield, near Reading in Berkshire, where she lived.

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Her writing has all the charm of unaffected spontaneous humour, combined with quick wit and literary skill. She met Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1836, and their acquaintance ripened into a warm friendship. The strain of poverty told on her work, for although her books sold at high prices, her income did not keep pace with her father's extravagances. In 1837, however, she received a civil list pension, and five years later her father died. A subscription was raised to pay his debts, and the surplus increased Mary's income. She eventually moved to a cottage in Swallowfield, where she remained for the rest of her life. She is buried in the churchyard there.

Her youthful ambition had been to be the greatest English poetess, and her first publications were poems in the manner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Walter Scott (Miscellaneous Verses, 1810, reviewed by Scott in the Quarterly; Christine, a metrical tale, 1811; Blanche, 1813). Her play Julian was produced at Covent Garden, with William Charles Macready in the title role, in 1823; The Foscari was performed at Covent Garden, with Charles Kemble as the hero, in 1826; Rienzi, 1828, the best of her plays, had a run of thirty-four nights, and Mary's friend, Thomas Noon Talfourd, imagined that its vogue militated against the success of his own play Ion. Charles the First was refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain, but was played at the Surrey Theatre in 1834.

The prose, to which she was driven by domestic necessities, is more successful than her verse. The first series of Our Village sketches appeared in 1824, a second in 1826, a third in 1828, a fourth in 1830, a fifth in 1832. They were reprinted several times. Belford Regis, a novel in which the neighbourhood and society of Reading were idealized, was published in 1835.

Her Recollections of a Literary Life (1852) is a series of causeries about her favorite books. Her talk was said by her friends, Elizabeth Browning and Hengist Horne, to have been even more amusing than her books, and five volumes of her Life and Letters, published in 1870 and 1872, show her to have been a delightful letter-writer.

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Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" or "[year] in literature":

1810: Miscellaneous Poems
1811: Christina, the Maid of the South Seas (poetry)
1812: Watlington Hill
1812: Blanch of Castile
1813: Narrative Poems on the Female Character
1823: Julian: A tragedy (play)
1824: Our Village, Volume 1 (Volume 2 1826; Volume 3, 1828; Volume 4, 1830; Volume 5, 1832)
1826: Foscari: A tragedy (play)
1827: Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets, and other Poems
1828: Rienzi: A tragedy (play)
1830: Editor, Stories of American Life, by American Writers, Volume 2
1831: Mary Queen of Scots
1832: American Stories for Children
1834: Charles the First: An historical tragedy (play)
1835: Sadak and Kalascado
1835: Belford Regis; or, Sketches of a Country Town (in three volumes)
1837: Country Stories
1852: Recollections of a Literary Life, or Books, Places and People (three volumes)
1854: Atherton, and Other Tales (three volumes) Berkshire History: Biographies: Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1865) (Based on Old DNB entry).
1854: Dramatic Works

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Total Books: 196

2016 - Favorite Love Stories (Audio CD) → Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9781522649328
ISBN-10: 1522649328
Genre: Romance

2010 - Recollections of a Literary Life or Books Places and People Volume 2 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781143278075
ISBN-10: 1143278070
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

The Works of Mary Russell Mitford Prose and Verse Viz Our Village Belford Regis Country Stories Finden's Tableaux Foscari Julian Rienzi Charles the First

2010 - The Works of Mary Russell Mitford Prose and Verse VIz Our VIllage Belford Regis Country Stories Finden's Tableaux Foscari Julian Rienzi Charles the First (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781143814198
ISBN-10: 1143814193
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2010 - The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford As Recorded in Letters From Her Literary Correspondents Volume 2 (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781143408113
ISBN-10: 114340811X

2010 - The Life of Mary Russell Mitford Related in a Selection From Her Letters to Her Friends Volume 2 (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781143451911
ISBN-10: 1143451910

2010 - The Works of Mary Russell Mitford Prose and Verse (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781143548321
ISBN-10: 1143548329
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2010 - Atherton and Other Tales (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781142019549
ISBN-10: 1142019543

2010 - Country Stories (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781142219123
ISBN-10: 1142219127

2010 - Letters of Mary Russell Mitford 2d Ser (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781142445911
ISBN-10: 1142445917

2010 - Recollections of a Literary Life 1 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781142530693
ISBN-10: 1142530698

2010 - Recollections of a Literary Life or Books Places and People (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781142537630
ISBN-10: 1142537633

2010 - Recollections of a Literary Life or Books Places and People Volume 3 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781142657918
ISBN-10: 1142657914

2010 - Foscari Julian Tragedies (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781141539086
ISBN-10: 114153908X
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2010 - Our VIllage (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781141578702
ISBN-10: 1141578700
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2010 - Foscari a Tragedy (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781141020812
ISBN-10: 1141020815

2010 - Stories of VIllage and Town Life or Worldpictures of Old England (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781152777590
ISBN-10: 1152777599

2010 - Mary Russell Mitford Correspondence with Charles Boner (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781152405011
ISBN-10: 1152405012

2010 - Selected Stories From Our VIllage (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781152775787
ISBN-10: 1152775782

2010 - Mary Russell Mitford Correspondence with Charles Boner (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781152405035
ISBN-10: 1152405039

2010 - Belford Regis or Sketches of a Country Town [Volume 1] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781151914033
ISBN-10: 1151914037

2010 - Correspondence with Charles Boner (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781152007994
ISBN-10: 1152007998

2010 - The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford As Recorded in Letters From Her Literary Correspondents (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2010 - The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford As Recorded in Letters From Her Literary Correspondents Edited By Ag L'estrange [Volume 1] (Paperback)

2010 - Sketches of English Life and Character (Paperback)

2010 - The Life of Mary Russell Mitford Told By Herself in Letters to Her Friends Edited By Agk L'estrange [Volume 1] (Paperback)

2010 - Recollection of a Literary Life and Selections From My Favourite Poets and Prose Writers (Paperback) → Paperback

2009 - Foscari (Paperback)

2009 - The Life of Mary Russell Mitford Related in a Selection From Her Letters to Her Friends [Volume 1] (Paperback)

2009 - The Life of Mary Russell Mitford (Paperback)

2009 - The Dramatic Works of Mary Russell Mitford (Paperback) → Paperback

2009 - The Life of Mary Russell Mitford Told By Herself in Letters to Her Friends (Paperback)

2009 - Recollections of a Literary Life or Books Places and People [1] (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2009 - Stories of American Life By American Writers (Paperback)

2009 - Children of the VIllage [selections From Our Village] (Paperback)

2009 - Charles the First an Historical Tragedy (Paperback)

2009 - Julian a Tragedy [v. 41,pt. 1] (Paperback)

2009 - Charles the First an Historical Tragedy in Five Acts [microform] (Paperback)

2009 - Belford Regis or Sketches of a Country Town (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2009 - Jesse Cliffe (Paperback)

2009 - Foscari and Julian Tragedies [1827] (Paperback) → Hardcover

2009 - Poems (Paperback) → Paperback

2009 - Belford Regis (Paperback) → Paperback

2009 - Dramatic Scenes Sonnets and Other Poems [1827] (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2009 - Julian (Paperback)

2009 - Lights and Shadows of American Life (Paperback) → Paperback

2009 - Recollections of a Literary Life (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2009 - Letters of Mary Russell Mitford [v. 2] (Paperback)

2009 - Atherton (Paperback) → Paperback

2009 - Belford Regis or Sketches of a Country Town Volume I (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2009 - Village Tales and Sketches [1881] (Paperback) → Hardcover

2009 - Watlington Hill a Poem [1812] (Paperback)

2009 - The Dramatic Works of Mary Russell Mitford V1 [1854] (Paperback) → Hardcover

2009 - Our VIllage Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2009 - The Life of Mary Russell Mitford Volume II (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2009 - Charles the First a Historical Tragedy in Five Acts [1834] (Paperback)

2009 - Recollections of a Literary Life or Books Places and People Volume I (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover

2008 - The Life of Mary Russell Mitford V3 Related in a Selection From Her Letters to Her Friends [1870] (Hardcover) → Paperback

2008 - Our VIllage Sketches of Rural Character Scenery (Hardcover) → Paperback, Hardcover

2008 - Memoirs and Letters of Charles Boner V1 with Letters of Mary Russell Mitford to Him During Ten Years [1871] (Hardcover) → Paperback

2008 - Atherton and Other Tales V2 [1854] (Hardcover) → Paperback

2008 - Mary Russell Mitford Correspondence with Charles Boner and John Ruskin [1914] (Hardcover) → Paperback

2008 - Honor O'callaghan and Jesse Cliffe [Dodo Press] (Paperback)

2008 - The London VIsitor (Paperback)

2008 - Aunt Deborah and the Beauty of the VIllage [Dodo Press] (Paperback)

2008 - Country Lodgings and the Groundash [Dodo Press] (Paperback)

2008 - The London VIsitor and Other Stories [Dodo Press] (Paperback)

2008 - The Widow's Dog and Mr Joseph Hanson the Haberdasher [Dodo Press] (Paperback)

2008 - Stories of VIllage and Town Life or Worldpictures of Old England (Paperback) → Paperback

2008 - Short Works of Mary Russell Mitford (Paperback) → Paperback

2004 - Charles the First (Paperback)

2001 - Village Life and Character (Hardcover)

1990 - My Garden Selected From the Letters and Recollections of Mary Russell Mitford (Hardcover)

My Garden (Paperback) → Hardcover

Our VIllage Illustrated Edition (Hardcover) → Hardcover

The Letters of Mary Russell Mitford (Other)

Belford Regis or Sketches of a Country Town or Sketches of a Country Town [Short Story Index Reprint Series] (Hardcover)

Our VIllage 1824 [Revolution and Romanticism, 1789-1834] (Hardcover)

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